CEE professor teaches, leads, serves to protect state’s water resources
January 12, 2011
William H. McAnally, research professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE), is the newly elected vice president of the Mississippi Water Resources Association (MWRA).
A Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a recent Einstein Award recipient, and an appointed trustee to the board for the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port, and Navigation Engineers, McAnally will then serve as the MWRA president in 2012 and chairman of the board in 2013.
Dennis Truax, James T. White Chair and department head and professor of CEE, said, “Bill McAnally is a respected researcher and an active member of several other professional committees. The MWRA membership has selected a great leader that will connect organizational contacts with experience to effectively manage and protect the state’s water resources.”
McAnally has authored more than 100 publications, is a member of the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers, and holds a bachelor’s in civil engineering from Arizona State University, as well as master’s and doctoral degrees in coastal and oceanographic engineering from the University of Florida.
The MWRA helps resolve complex water issues, which face the state, region and nation. Although Mississippi has ample supplies of clean water, issues facing water supplies and disputes among Alabama, Georgia and Florida, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court deliberation of South-and North Carolina’s water issues, it’s imperative that the MWRA help Mississippi proactively manage its water resources.