Description and Primary Responsibilities:

-The Water Resource Committee provides counsel and direction to the Commission and will study, discuss and evaluate water resource issues of concern or interest to the Commission and Basin states. 

-It is composed of a chairman, who is a Commissioner and is appointed by the Chairman of the Commission. 

-The Committee shall include one member from each Basin state who is an employee of the agency that has primary responsibility for water quantity management and water resource protection for that state. 

-The Committee shall also include members representing the US Army Corps of Engineers and US Geological Survey and other federal water resource agencies identified by the Committee and approved by the Chairman of the Commission. 

-The Chief Engineer of the Commission shall be an ex officio member of the Water Resources Committee.