USGS Cooperative Matching Funds (CMF) support joint projects with our state, regional, tribal, and local partners to provide reliable, impartial, and timely information needed to understand and manage the Nation's water resources.
CMF is combined with funds from over 1,500 partners for projects that monitor and assess water resources in every state, protectorate, and territory of the U.S. The flexibility of CMF allows USGS and its partners to respond to significant or emerging water issues in a timely manner; sometimes this results in local issues being raised to the regional or national level. Because consistent USGS national protocols are used to monitor and assess water resources, water data are directly comparable at the regional and national scale and water issues in a specific location, watershed, or aquifer can be compared to those in other geographic regions and across different time periods. Such comparisons allow for large-scale synthesis and problem-solving across state lines, in regional watersheds or aquifers, and nationally. CMF are also used to develop innovative approaches for monitoring, modeling, managing, and delivering water data and science to our partners, while also providing information that protects human lives and property, promotes healthy ecosystems, and supports sustainable economic development.
CMF was formerly known as the Cooperative Water Program (CWP), and in 2016 was moved to three programs within the Water Mission Area:
- For more information about CMF used for streamgage and groundwater monitoring networks, flood inundation, debris flow, floods, and more, visit the Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program.
- For more information about CMF used for water use data, groundwater-flow models, drought studies, low flow/ecological flow, lakes and reservoir capacity studies, and and more, visit the Water Availability and Use Science Program.
- For more information about CMF used for water-quality studies and data, lake studies, urban studies, ecosystems, including Harmful Algal Blooms, and more, visit the National Water Quality Program.
If you are interested in discussing a possible collaboration with the USGS, please contact the local USGS Water Science Center.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program
National Water Quality Program
Water Availability and Use Science Program
- Overview
USGS Cooperative Matching Funds (CMF) support joint projects with our state, regional, tribal, and local partners to provide reliable, impartial, and timely information needed to understand and manage the Nation's water resources.
CMF is combined with funds from over 1,500 partners for projects that monitor and assess water resources in every state, protectorate, and territory of the U.S. The flexibility of CMF allows USGS and its partners to respond to significant or emerging water issues in a timely manner; sometimes this results in local issues being raised to the regional or national level. Because consistent USGS national protocols are used to monitor and assess water resources, water data are directly comparable at the regional and national scale and water issues in a specific location, watershed, or aquifer can be compared to those in other geographic regions and across different time periods. Such comparisons allow for large-scale synthesis and problem-solving across state lines, in regional watersheds or aquifers, and nationally. CMF are also used to develop innovative approaches for monitoring, modeling, managing, and delivering water data and science to our partners, while also providing information that protects human lives and property, promotes healthy ecosystems, and supports sustainable economic development.
CMF was formerly known as the Cooperative Water Program (CWP), and in 2016 was moved to three programs within the Water Mission Area:
- For more information about CMF used for streamgage and groundwater monitoring networks, flood inundation, debris flow, floods, and more, visit the Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program.
- For more information about CMF used for water use data, groundwater-flow models, drought studies, low flow/ecological flow, lakes and reservoir capacity studies, and and more, visit the Water Availability and Use Science Program.
- For more information about CMF used for water-quality studies and data, lake studies, urban studies, ecosystems, including Harmful Algal Blooms, and more, visit the National Water Quality Program.
If you are interested in discussing a possible collaboration with the USGS, please contact the local USGS Water Science Center.
- Science
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program
The Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program serves as the national source of impartial, timely, quality-assured, and relevant water data for short- and long-term water decisions by local, State, tribal, regional, and national stakeholders. Our objectives are to collect, manage, and disseminate consistently high-quality and reliable hydrologic information in real-time and over the long-term.National Water Quality Program
The National Water Quality Program seeks to answer four questions regarding the quality of our freshwater resources: 1) What is the quality of the Nation's streams and groundwater? 2) How is water quality changing over time? 3) How do natural factors and human activities affect water quality? 4) How will water quality change in response to future changes in climate and human activities?Water Availability and Use Science Program
The Water Availability and Use Science Program exists to provide a more accurate assessment of the status of the water resources of the U.S., assist in the determination of the quantity and quality of water that is available for beneficial uses, identify long-term trends in water availability, and develop the basis for an improved ability to forecast the availability of fresh water.