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

1724764 willard提议的研讨会将通过加强解决方案的对话来解决灌溉含水层枯竭和可持续发展的挑战。它将与2017年6月在科罗拉多州柯林斯堡举行的年度水资源大学理事会/国家水资源研究所（UCOWR/NIWR）会议一起作为一个特别的轨道举行。联合国粮食及农业组织估计，到2050年，粮食产量必须在2009年的基础上增加70%，才能养活新增的23亿人口。这一特殊轨道的预期成果包括多学科背景的科学家之间的协作和合作，以制定切实可行的解决方案，以缓解这一复杂的水资源问题。计划的特别轨道，处理灌溉含水层枯竭和对可持续性的挑战，侧重于与农业灌溉有关的含水层枯竭。支持会议将提供讨论地下水管理和安全相关问题的机会。解决水资源、农业实践和粮食安全之间这种联系的部分主题清单包括：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计划和项目；变化环境下的地下水管理；干旱监测和稀缺性规划；气候扰动对美国西部水文的影响和变化；美国-墨西哥跨界含水层评估。这些话题是那些参与国家科学基金会计划的人感兴趣的，infws，食物-能源-水系统的创新，在水和农业的交叉领域。本次会议和相关会议的主要目标是将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聚集在一起，研究美国关键农业地区的地下水枯竭和适应问题，如奥加拉拉含水层、加州中央山谷、密西西比三角洲地区和亚利桑那州的冲积盆地。通过这个讲习班，可以通过信息的传递大大推进合作研究工作，并在此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.