Helping water professionals learn how to manage water resources is the goal of training programs coordinated by the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI). TWRI works with Texas A&M University's Spatial Sciences Laboratory (SSL), Texas A&M University Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, the Texas AgriLife Blackland Research and Extension Center at Temple, and the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Urban Solutions Center at Dallas to market and administer training courses on water-related geographic information systems, remote sensing technology, and computer simulation models.

Short course topics include:

• Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT),
• Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX),
• Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP),
• Modeling of Water Distribution Systems using EPANET
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Floodplain Delineation with HEC-RAS and GIS