About the Agency

Mission: The Nebraska Department of Water, Energy and Environment is committed to protecting and enhancing Nebraska’s water, energy, and environmental resources through science-based decision-making, strong partnerships, and cooperative efforts.
 

Vision: A Nebraska where water, energy, and environmental resources are sustainably managed and safeguarded through effective communications, collaboration, innovation, and stewardship —ensuring the prosperity of our communities and agricultural-based economy for future generations.
 

Values:

• CUSTOMERS: We will consider the impact to our customers in everything we do, customers can be internal and external to the agency.
• COMMUNICATION: We will effectively communicate throughout our organization and with our customers.
• CULTURE: We will create a proactive culture of excellence that promotes teamwork and collaboration with each other and our customers, agency & stakeholder integrity, resource stewardship, science-based decision making, and innovation.
• COLLABORATION: Proactively identifying effective solutions to support our customer’s needs.
• STEWARDSHIP: We are dedicated to the responsible management of Nebraska’s water, energy, and environmental resources—protecting these vital resources today so they remain abundant and productive for future generations.
• SCIENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING: Utilizing the best available data and research to drive informed policies and practices.
• INNOVATION: We embrace new ideas and always ask, “How can we provide more value?”

Office Information

The different locations of the Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment offices:

Contact Information & Topical Directory

Contact information for the agency’s main divisions, field offices, programs, and a topical listing of program names and phone numbers: