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Availability, use, and quality of water resources present challenges to meet agricultural, industrial, residential, environmental, and recreational water needs in Oklahoma, the Southern Great Plains region, and beyond.  With a growing population, effective management and treatment of water across the different geoclimatic regions are critical to a sustainable economic future.  Increasing drought severity and duration make it essential that community leaders, water managers, farmers and ranchers, and other stakeholders develop contingency plans for managing scarce water resources during critical drought periods while maintaining preparedness to cope with flooding due to extreme rain events.  The Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department at Oklahoma State University intend