Water Science and Technology Board Core Support

1728813绿水是所有自然资源中最重要的。迫切需要提高我们对水资源的认识，以及社会为各种目的输送、储存、分配和增加获得适当质量和数量的水的方式。特别是在人口增长、土地利用变化和气候变化挑战了地下水和地表水系统自我补充的自然能力之际，进一步了解水文循环各部分的水资源，以及开发监测、模拟、回收和处理水的新方法的方法，对社会和环境健康与安全至关重要。该奖项是对水科学与技术委员会的部分核心支持，该委员会是国家科学院、工程院和医学院的水问题焦点。作为这一角色的一部分，委员会通过出版物来回应一系列水资源问题，引起科学和工程方面的关注，是代表水科学和工程社区的政府的直接资源和参考点。该委员会的目标包括促进对一系列水问题的最新科学和工程方法的发现、理解和应用；促进政府、学术界、产业界和其他利益相关者就水资源领域的紧迫议题进行合作与交流；促进与水有关的多学科研究和技术的教学、培训和教育。通过其共识报告、召集职能以及其他出版物和通信，由无偿服务的主题专家和科学院工作人员组成的委员会与水科学和工程界合作，确定与该学科相关且对政府重要的新兴主题，并提供一个中立的论坛，以持续探索这些主题。作为传统学术研究形式的补充，水科学和技术委员会通过一种知识生成形式审查新出现的问题，这种形式以召集来自一系列利益攸关方的信息和观点为基础。董事会?我们的活动在增加水科学和工程知识方面的贡献是独一无二的，因为它们利用了董事会？S召集能力，这依赖于对话、信息交流和建立共识。自1982年以来，该委员会促进了便利、集中的科学和工程为基础的讨论，通过客观审查和综合纯水和应用水研究及其影响，为水科学界、政府和公众提供了宝贵的利益。支持不同研究人员和其他利益相关者之间的对话和信息交流的能力为进一步推进水科学和工程各个领域的知识提供了机会。该委员会引起科学和工程方面的注意，以回应一系列水资源问题，是代表水科学和工程社区的政府的直接资源和参考点。理事会成员和工作人员一贯的能力和严谨性使理事会（和科学院）能够提供广泛的水资源学科与政府和政策制定的单一接口，同样地，为政府提供水资源学科。通过与水资源领域的联邦和州机构、学术界、工业界和非政府组织的密切合作，委员会可以接收并回应水利界所有利益相关者提出的问题和议题。委员会致力于从水科学和工程学科中分离出需要投入的关键主题，并促进不同利益攸关方之间的沟通与合作。通过这些努力以及使用各种沟通和外联手段，该委员会有助于为公共政策提供信息，并能让不同世代的研究人员、从业者和政策制定者参与到水科学和政策领域的建设性对话中来。

1728813EideWater is the most critical of all natural resources. The need to enhance our knowledge of water resources and the ways in which society conveys, stores, distributes, and increases access to water in appropriate qualities and quantities for a range of purposes has become urgent. Particularly as population growth, land use changes, and the variability in climate have challenged the natural capacity of ground and surface water systems to replenish themselves, greater understanding of water resources in all parts of the hydrological cycle and of ways to develop new approaches to monitor, model, recycle, and treat water is crucial for societal and environmental health and security. This award is for partial core support for the Water Science and Technology Board which serves as the focal point for water issues at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. As part of this role the Board brings scientific and engineering attention through publications to respond to a range of water resource questions and is an immediate resource and point of reference for the government on behalf of the water science and engineering community.The Board's objectives include advancing discovery, understanding, and application of the most current science and engineering approaches to a range of water issues; fostering cooperation and exchange among government, academia, industry, and other stakeholders on pressing topics in the water resources arena; and promoting teaching, training, and education in multi-disciplinary water-related research and technology. Through its consensus reports, convening functions, and other publications and communications, the Board, comprising subject-matter experts who serve pro bono, and the Academies staff work with the water science and engineering community to identify emerging topics relevant to the discipline and important to government, and provide a neutral forum to explore these topics on a continuing basis. As a complement to traditional forms of academic research, the Water Science and Technology Board examines emerging issues through a form of knowledge generation predicated on convening information and perspectives from a range of stakeholders. The Board?s activities are unique in their contribution to increasing knowledge in water science and engineering because they draw upon the Board?s convening capabilities, which rely upon dialogue, information exchange, and consensus building. Since 1982, the Board has fostered facilitated, focused science- and engineering-based discussions that provide valuable benefits to the water science community, the government, and public through objective examination and synthesis of pure and applied water research and its impacts. The ability to support dialogue and information exchange among different researchers and other stakeholders offers the opportunity to further advance knowledge in all areas of water science and engineering. The Board brings scientific and engineering attention to respond to a range of water resource questions and is an immediate resource and point of reference for the government on behalf of the water science and engineering community. The consistent capacity and rigor provided by the Board membership and staff enable the Board (and the Academies) to provide the broad water resources discipline with a singular interface with government and policymaking, and equally, for government with the water resources discipline. Working in strong collaboration with federal and state agencies, academia, industry, and nongovernmental organizations in the water resource arena, the Board can receive and respond to questions and issues raised by the full range of stakeholders in the water community. The Board works to isolate key topics that require input from the water science and engineering discipline and facilitates communication and cooperation among different stakeholders. Through these efforts and its use of various means of communication and outreach, the Board helps inform public policy and can engage different generations of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in constructive dialogue across the water science and policy domain.