Teach an Integrated Approach to Water Management

Neil S. Grigg is a professor of civil engineering and former director of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute at Colorado State University. After receiving his Ph.D. degree at Colorado State in 1969, he worked at the University of Denver for three years, and then joined C.S.U.’s faculty where he has worked since 1972, except for a five–year stint in North Carolina. There, he directed North Carolina’s Water Resources Research Institute and served three years in state government where he also worked on water problems. Neil’s main work over the years has been to study and write about water issues around the world. His textbook, Water Resources Management: Principles and Cases, is used around the globe. In 1988, he was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court as the River Master of the Pecos River. He has also served as head of Colorado State’s Civil Engineering Department and on numerous boards and commissions around the United States.