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

建设和维护一个有效的供水和管理系统对于增强我们社区的弹性、促进农业主导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个主要的社会技术挑战：1)水资源短缺；2)缺乏技术和基础设施的整合；3)供应和保护需求的脱节；4)低效的资源管理战略。利益相关者驱动的基础研究是克服这些挑战的必要条件。这个跨学科规划项目旨在建立一个利益相关者社区，其目标是：(1)确定水供应链中的重大挑战问题，(2)分享跨县供水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，特别是在美国西南地区。这个能力建设项目将包括研究人员、消费者、供水公司和当局在内的利益相关者聚集在一起，分享他们的经验、优势和劣势，并制定一项短期和长期战略计划，以应对与水资源管理有关的挑战。拟议的计划将为具有类似情况的州和县提供一个模式，从而建立一个相互联系的社区，利益相关者在这里分享他们的关切和经验。具体而言，该规划项目将举办(1)以焦点小组为基础的研究，讨论水利益相关者之间持续存在的紧迫问题；(2)一个研讨会，利益相关者将有机会从一系列角度了解挑战，分享水技术和基础设施的进步，并发现潜在的研究机会，以解决所暴露的问题。因此，这一规划项目将广泛吸引与水有关的利益相关者，并促进有效的节水战略，以保护该地区的水供应。通过提高用水效率，该项目将有助于满足日益增长的用水需求，并最大限度地减少食品、能源和市政部门之间的竞争。由此产生的用水模式将有助于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建立一个中心重点领域，并为利益相关者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.