Applications can be picked up from the Student Services Desk at the Higher Education Center building at University Place in Idaho Falls. We all need water. As the demands on our water resources continue to grow, hydrologists will be called upon to address the scientific challenges locally, state-wide, nationally, and internationally. Graduates of the University of Idaho Hydrology program will be among those dealing with issues of increased water demand, decreased or altered supply, and water quality degradation. Federal legislation in the past few decades has prompted a surge in clean up and protection of the quality of ground-water resources.
Hydrologists also serve to manage our lakes, rivers, and reservoirs.
Competition for these increasingly needed resources comes from recreation, irrigation, hydropower, aquaculture, municipal, industrial, and ecological demands. Federal and state agencies charged with managing and maintaining the integrity of our water resources employ hydrologists in scientific and management capacities. Consulting hydrologists are often brought in to perform specific evaluations for government agencies and private parties.