---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10307"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10307"
heading: "Types of research and development"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10307"
units:
  - "Chapter 109 — Water Resources Research"
---

# §10307. Types of research and development


The type of research and development to be undertaken under the authority of sections [10304](/usc/42/10304.md) and [10305](/usc/42/10305.md) of this title and to be encouraged by the institutes established under [section 10303 of this title](/usc/42/10303.md) shall include the following:

- (1) Aspects of the hydrologic cycle;
- (2) Supply and demand for water;
- (3) Demineralization of saline and other impaired waters;
- (4) Conservation and best use of available supplies of water and methods of increasing such supplies;
- (5) Water reuse;
- (6) Depletion, contamination, and degradation of groundwater supplies;
- (7) Improvements in the productivity of water when used for agricultural, municipal, and commercial purposes;
- (8) The economic, legal, engineering, social, recreational, biological, geographic, ecological, and other aspects of water quality and quantity problems;
- (9) Scientific information dissemination activities, including identifying, assembling, and interpreting the results of scientific and engineering research on water resources problems; and
- (10) Providing means for improved communication of research results, having due regard for the varying conditions and needs for the respective [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) and regions.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–242, title I, § 108, Mar. 22, 1984, 98 Stat. 101; Pub. L. 101–397, § 1(k), (l), Sept. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 853.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1990—Par. (6). Pub. L. 101–397, § 1(k), which directed that “, contamination,” be inserted after “depletion”, was executed by making the insertion after “Depletion” to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

Par. (8). Pub. L. 101–397, § 1(l), inserted “quality and quantity” after “water”.