SCC-Planning: Enhancing Water Resource Management and Infrastructure Improvement through Sensing, Computation, and Community Engagement

建立和维护有效的供水和管理系统对于增强我们社区的复原力、促进以农业为主的地区的经济增长以及确保地方、国家和全球的粮食安全至关重要。我们的水系统面临着四大社会技术挑战：i)缺水，ii)缺乏技术和基础设施一体化，iii)供应和保护需求脱节，以及iv)资源管理战略效率低下。利益相关者驱动的基础研究对于克服这些挑战是必要的。这一跨学科规划项目旨在建立一个利益相关者社区，目标是(1)确定水资源供应链中的重大挑战问题，(2)分享各州水资源基础设施现代化的经验，以及(3)解决阻碍有效水资源管理的障碍，特别是在美国西南部地区。这一能力建设项目将包括研究人员、消费者、自来水公司和当局在内的利益攸关方聚集在一起，分享他们的经验、长处和弱点，并制定应对与水资源管理相关的挑战的短期和长期战略计划。拟议的计划将为情况相似的州和县提供一个模式，从而建立一个互联社区，利益攸关方在其中分享他们的关切和经验。具体地说，该规划项目将举办(1)以专题小组为基础的研究，讨论水资源利益攸关方长期存在的紧迫问题，(2)举办研讨会，利益攸关方将有机会从一系列角度了解挑战，分享水技术和基础设施方面的进展，并发现潜在的研究机会，以解决暴露出来的问题。因此，这一规划项目将吸引广泛的与水有关的利益攸关方，并促进有效的节水战略，以保护该地区的供水。通过提高用水效率，该项目将支持满足日益增长的用水需求，并将食品、能源和市政部门之间的竞争降至最低。由此产生的用水模式将帮助社区制定更好的节水计划，提高用水效率。该项目将为未来的研究工作在水界形成一个中心重点领域，并为利益攸关方之间更富有成效的合作奠定基础。

Constructing and maintaining an effective water supply and management system is paramount to enhancing the resiliency of our communities, promoting economic growth in agriculture-dominant regions, and ensuring food security locally, nationally, and worldwide. There are four major socio-technical challenges facing our water systems: i) water shortage, ii) lack of technical and infrastructural integration, iii) disconnects in supply and conservation needs, and iv) inefficient resource management strategies. Stakeholder-driven fundamental research is necessary to overcome these challenges. This interdisciplinary planning project aims to establish a community of stakeholders with the objectives of (1) identifying the grand challenging problems in water supply chain, (2) sharing experiences of modernizing water infrastructures across counties, and (3) addressing the hurdles preventing effective water resource management, especially in the Southwest region of the United States. This capacity building project brings stakeholders including researchers, consumers, water supply companies, and authorities together to share their experience, strengths, and weakness, and to develop a short- and long-term strategic plan for addressing the challenges pertinent to water resource management. The proposed plan will offer a model for states and counties with similar circumstances and thus build a connected community, where stakeholders share their concerns and experiences. Specifically, this planning project will hold (1) a focus group-based study to discuss the persisting, urgent problems among water stakeholders, and (2) a workshop where stakeholders will have the opportunity to learn about challenges from a range of perspective, share advances in water technology and infrastructure, and discover potential research opportunities to address the problems exposed. Thus, this planning project will engage a wide range of water-related stakeholders and promote effective water conservation strategies to protect the region's water supply. By improving water use efficiency, the project will support efforts to meet growing water needs and minimize competition between food, energy, and municipal sectors. The resulting water usage model will help communities develop better programs for water conservation and improve water use efficiency. The project will develop a central area of focus in the water community for future research efforts, and lay the groundwork for much more fruitful collaboration between stakeholders.