During CWN’s first seven years of NCE funding, we focused on connecting researchers separated widely by geography, habit and discipline to the diverse water management community, combining resources to support the complex challenge of water management. We embraced the broad user sector as integral partners in the process, ensuring that our research better underpinned water management decisions. Having established a core national network, CWN undertook during its second funding cycle to build upon this strong capacity base. We began a transformation to more fully meet the needs of the user community through an evolution from a researcher-based push on defining research needs to an end-user pull.

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