CRISP 2.0 Type 2: Collaborative Research: Water and Health Infrastructure Resilience and Learning (WHIRL)

饮用水和公共卫生系统是支持人类福祉的一些最关键的基础设施。这个关键弹性相互依赖基础设施系统和过程（CRISP）项目将为这些系统如何相互作用和适应挑战提供新的见解。该项目还将调查公众如何了解和参与公共卫生和供水系统。重点将是评估从常规挑战到大规模灾难的一系列中断如何改变公众与这些系统的互动。研究数据将包括对来自水务公司和公共卫生机构的主题专家的采访。它还将包括一项全国性调查，以了解这些美国基础设施如何适应未来的挑战。从项目合作伙伴和全国调查中获得的信息将用于确定因素和开发可用于增强这两个系统的复原力的模型。该项目将制定可用于促进所有社区，包括社会和经济上处于不利地位的社区获得更清洁、更安全饮用水的办法。它将通过确定可用于改进水和公共卫生系统的管理和通信方法的方法，从而改善社区的健康、繁荣和福利，从而符合国家利益。与水研究基金会、全国县和市卫生官员协会、美洲印第安人母亲公司等机构的合作将有助于将研究成果转化为减轻弱势群体疾病负担的新做法和政策。该项目还将为学生提供STEM方面的培训，包括代表性不足的少数族裔。本研究将在两个主要领域作出理论贡献。首先，它将建立在组织学习理论的基础上，因为它体现在水事件的风险、危害和中断中，并在系统理论和组织意义制定中加以说明。成果包括旨在提高可靠性和复原力的新规范、程序、结构、能力和技术。这将包括描述风险、危害和失败影响公共政策议程和政策学习成果的方式。其次，本研究将通过连接水事件周围的社会、管理和技术框架，为关键基础设施的弹性理论工作做出贡献。影响未知的新兴风险包括城市萎缩、基础设施老化和资金持续不足。该项目的变革方面包括创建理论模型，描述社区与这些耦合的相互依存系统的关系如何从中断中塑造组织学习，并反过来制定增强弹性的变化。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Drinking water and public health systems are some of the most critical infrastructures that support human well-being. This Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) project will provide new insights about how these systems interact with each other and adapt to challenges. The project will also investigate how the public learns about and engages with public health and water systems. The focus will be to assess how a range of disruptions, from routine challenges to large-scale disasters, alter public interactions with these systems. Study data will include interviews with subject matter experts from water utilities and public health agencies. It will also include a national survey to understand how well these US infrastructures can adapt to future challenges. Information gained from project partners and the national survey will be used to identify factors and develop models that can be used to enhance resilience of both systems. This project will develop approaches that can be used to promote access to cleaner, safer drinking water for all communities, including the socially and economically disadvantaged ones. It will serve the national interest by identifying approaches that can be used to improve management for, and communication methods between, water and public health systems, thereby improving the health, prosperity and welfare of communities. Collaborations with the Water Research Foundation (WRF), National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), American Indian Mothers, Inc. and others, will assist in translating research results to new practices and policies that reduce the burden of disease in vulnerable populations. The project will also provide training to students, including underrepresented minorities, in STEM.The research will make theoretical contributions in two primary areas. First, it will build upon organizational learning theory as it is manifest from risks, hazard and disruptions in water events and ground this within systems theory and organizational sense-making. Outcomes include new norms, procedures, structures, capacity and technology designed to promote higher reliability and resilience. This will include describing the ways risk, hazards and failures impact public policy agendas and policy learning outcomes. Second, this research will contribute to theoretical work on resilience in critical infrastructure by connecting the social, managerial, and technical frameworks as manifest around water events. Emerging risks with unknown impact include shrinking cities, decaying infrastructure and persistent under-funding. Transformative aspects of the project include creating theoretical models that describe how the relationship of communities to these coupled interdependent systems shapes organizational learning from disruptions, and in turn enacting changes that enhance resilience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.