Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts provide key lessons for managing water resources including building trust between stakeholders, using data to inform decisions, employing a variety of approaches, assuring performance measures are met, and securing adequate funding. The rewards of sustainable water management may not be immediate but will benefit future generations, as emphasized by a farmer who stated it is important to "do what's right."

2. Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts

3. Key lessons
1. Building trust
2. The need for data
3. Using a portfolio of
approaches
4. Assuring performance
5. Funding

4. "It's not a quick reward, it's a tomorrow reward. It all
comes down to doing what's right."
-Wayne, a farmer from northern Nebraska

5. Kate Gibson
Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute
kgibson@nebraska.edu