Workshop: Addressing Irrigation Aquifer Depletion and Challenges to Sustainability: Enhancing Dialogue on Solutions, Annual UCOWR/NIWR conference, Fort Collins, CO, June 2017

1724764 Williard拟议的研讨会将通过加强关于解决方案的对话，解决灌溉含水层枯竭和可持续性面临的挑战。它将作为一个特殊的轨道与年度大学理事会水资源/国家水资源研究所（UCOWR/NIWR）会议一起举行，在柯林斯堡，CO，2017年6月。联合国粮食及农业组织估计，粮食产量必须在2009年的基础上增加70%，才能在2050年前养活额外的23亿人。这一特别轨道的预期成果包括多学科背景的科学家之间的协作与合作，以制定切实可行的解决方案，以减轻这一复杂的水资源问题。计划中的专题讨论灌溉含水层枯竭和对可持续性的挑战，重点是与农业灌溉有关的含水层枯竭问题。辅助会议将提供机会讨论地下水管理和安全方面的相关问题。解决水资源、农业实践和粮食安全之间关系的部分议题包括：地下水评估和管理;灌溉含水层管理的社会经济学;提高灌溉效率;作物管理;亚利桑那州和内华达州解决未来科罗拉多河短缺的方案和项目;变化环境中的地下水管理;干旱监测和稀缺规划;美国西部水文的气候扰动影响和变化;美国-墨西哥跨界含水层评估。 这些主题对参与NSF计划、INFEWS、食品-能源-水系统联系创新的人员感兴趣，其中涉及水和农业的交叉点。这个拟议的会议轨道和相关会议的主要目标是汇集广泛的水文地质学家，工程师，经济学家，农学家和其他科学家和专业人士研究地下水枯竭和适应在美国的关键农业地区，如奥加拉拉含水层、加州的中央谷、密西西比三角洲地区和亚利桑那州的冲积盆地。通过这一讲习班，可通过信息交流大大推进合作研究工作，并可在这一过程中产生可行的解决办法。

1724764 Williard The proposed workshop will address irrigation aquifer depletion and challenges to sustainability by enhancing dialogue on solutions. It will be held as a special track in conjunction with the annual Universities Council on Water Resources/National Institutes for Water Resources (UCOWR/NIWR) conference, in Fort Collins, CO, June 2017. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that food production must be increased by 70 % from 2009 levels in order to feed an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050. Expected outcomes of this special track include the collaboration and cooperation among scientists of multiple disciplinary backgrounds in order to develop practical solutions to mitigate this complex water resources issue. The planned special track, addressing irrigation aquifer depletion and challenges to sustainability, focuses upon aquifer depletion in relation to agricultural irrigation. Supporting sessions will provide opportunities to discuss related issues in groundwater management and security. A partial list of topics addressing this nexus of water resources, agricultural practices, and food security includes: groundwater assessment and management; socio-economics of irrigation aquifer management; improving irrigation efficiency; crop management; Arizona and Nevada programs and projects to address future Colorado River shortages; groundwater management in a changing environment; drought monitoring and planning for scarcity; climate disturbance impacts and shifts in hydrology over the Western United States; the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment. These topics are of interest to those involved in the NSF Program, INFEWS, Innovations at the Nexus of the Food-Energy-Water Systems, where the intersection of water and agriculture are concerned. A primary goal of this proposed conference track and associated sessions is to bring together a broad range of hydrogeologists, engineers, economists, agronomists, and other scientists and professionals studying groundwater depletion and adaptation in critical agricultural areas in the U.S., such as the Ogallala Aquifer, California's Central Valley, the Mississippi Delta region, and Arizona's alluvial basins. Through this workshop collaborative research efforts may be significantly advanced through the transfer of information, and workable solutions may be generated in the process.