Coffee Talk: Nebraska Department of Water, Energy & Environment
Building Resilience: How Nebraska Transformed Water Data Management
From System Failure to Revolutionizing Water Management – Join Us on June 17th at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
Managing water data across one of North America’s most hydrologically diverse states is no small feat. For an agency tasked with flood forecasting, water rights management, and agricultural water oversight across vastly different landscapes, the stakes are high. The Nebraska Department of Water, Energy & Environment (DWEE) faced a familiar challenge: a legacy system plagued by over 75 crashes annually, a cumbersome 15-step data workflow, and the urgent need for a platform capable of supporting real-time decision-making and interagency collaboration.
On June 17th, join Jim Williams, Professional Engineer – Streamgaging & NeRAIN at Nebraska DWEE, for an exclusive look at how their team revolutionized water data management. Learn how they leveraged Aquarius to centralize statewide water data, simplify field workflows, and deliver reliable, accessible information at scale.
In this session, you will discover how Nebraska DWEE:
- Replaced a crash-prone legacy platform with a stable, cloud-hosted system, eliminating downtime and reducing IT dependency.
- Streamlined a 15-step data workflow into just 3 efficient actions, enabling faster validation and freeing staff for high-value analysis.
- Enabled real-time data acquisition, QA/QC, correction, and publishing across statewide monitoring networks.
- Integrated water data seamlessly into internal dashboards, floodplain modeling tools, and emergency management systems.
- Expanded access to groundwater data through early collaboration with Natural Resources Districts.
Join us to see how the right data infrastructure, paired with a thoughtful implementation approach, can transform a fragmented and unreliable system into a resilient, statewide platform built for the future.