Water Science and Technology Board and Its Activities

该奖项将为美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院（NASEM）地球与生命研究部水科学与技术委员会（WSTB）的活动提供核心支持。WSTB为学术界、政府、非政府组织和私营部门就与水科学、工程、技术和政策相关的主题进行讨论和知识共享提供了重要的召集功能。WSTB每年组织两次公开会议，并通过与联邦机构和其他赞助商的协议监督一系列共识研究、研讨会和其他活动。在其半年一次的会议上，委员会邀请与会者就具有国家和全球重要性的重大和新出现的与水有关的议题发言，并协调讨论。在此奖项期间，拟议的讨论主题将包括气候变化和相关极端天气事件的影响（例如，干旱，洪水和野火）对水的数量，质量和可用性从水文和工程的角度来看;新出现的关注污染物（CEC）的创新监测方法;饮用水和废水资源分配和管理中的环境正义和不公平;和共同-与相关利益攸关方和传统知识的持有者合作，土著、农村和代表性不足的社区。在此期间，WSTB还将利用NSF的核心支持资金，寻求与其他联邦机构合作的机会。这种战略合作将使WSTB更好地了解联邦水景观，并为WSTB和NSF提供机会，以确定与水相关的跨领域重大挑战和研究需求的协同作用，因为国家制定和实施了一项计划，以实现气候变化下的水安全。水是所有生命形式存在的必要条件。在美国，水基础设施的发展扩大了对水资源的控制和直接可用性，远远超出了其自然表面或地下边界，但也往往超出了其自然补给能力。社会对饮用水、农业用水和工业用水的需求依赖于不断推进技术，但也依赖于对全球水循环及其与其他自然地球系统相互作用的深入了解。随着气候变化和土地利用模式的变化（导致或加剧干旱，洪水，野火和干旱等极端天气事件），以及地表水系统和地下水含水层日益受到PFAS和微塑料废物等新出现的污染物（CEC）的污染，这一问题变得更加紧迫。水科学和技术委员会（WSTB）成立于1982年，负责监督和开展国家科学院与水有关的活动。这项收费范围很广，涵盖水科学、工程、技术和政策的各个方面。作为一个常设机构，WSTB将数十年的专业知识与独特的中立召集论坛相结合，使其能够为美国及其他地区的水资源管理提供科学和技术基础。WSTB在NSF颁奖期间可能探索的广泛主题将包括气候变化的影响（如干旱、洪水、野火和干旱化）对水的可用性和质量的影响;服务不足人口的环境正义和水公平;下一代饮用水、废水和雨水系统;水的重新分配和再利用;有管理的含水层补给;新兴污染物（如PFAS和微/纳米塑料）对水质和可用性的影响;洪泛区管理;水系统工程;水生生态系统功能和恢复;以及水体的法律的、经济和监管方面。这些都是水科学和工程界的近期投入和参与将是至关重要的领域的例子，因为国家制定和实施了一项计划，以实现水安全在21世纪世纪。该奖项由NSF CBET环境工程和水文科学计划共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF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。

This NSF award will provide core support for the activities of the Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) of the Division on Earth and Life Studies of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). WSTB provides an important convening function for discussion and sharing of knowledge among academia, government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector on topics of relevance to water science, engineering, technology, and policy. WSTB organizes two public meetings each year and oversees a range of consensus studies, workshops, and other activities through agreements with federal agencies and other sponsors. At its semiannual meetings, the Board invites presentations, and coordinates discussions on significant and emerging water-related topics of national and global importance. Proposed topics of discussion during this award period will include the impact of climate change and associated extreme weather events (e.g., droughts, floods, and wildfires) on water quantity, quality, and availability from both a hydrological and engineering perspective; innovative surveillance methods for contaminants of emerging concern (CECs); environmental justice and inequities in drinking water and wastewater resource allocation and management; and the co-production of knowledge on water resources management in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and holders of traditional bodies of knowledge including Indigenous, rural, and underrepresented communities. During this award period, WSTB will also leverage NSF core support funding to seek out opportunities to engage with other federal agencies. This strategic engagement will enable WSTB to better understand the federal water landscape and provide both WSTB and NSF with opportunities to identify synergies on water related crosscutting grand challenges and research needs as the Nation develops and implements a plan to achieve water security under a changing climate. Water is essential to the existence of all forms of life. In the United States, the development of water infrastructure has expanded the control and immediate availability of water resources well beyond their natural surface or subsurface boundaries, but also often beyond their natural capacities for replenishment. The societal need of clean water for potable, agricultural, and industrial usages rely on continuing to advance technology, but also on a deep understanding of the global water cycle and its interactions with other natural Earth systems. This is becoming ever more urgent with climate change and changing land use patterns (causing or exacerbating extreme weather events such as drought, flooding, wildfires, and aridification), and with the increasing contamination of surface water systems and groundwater aquifers with contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) such as PFAS and microplastic waste. The Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) was established in 1982 to oversee and conduct water-related activities at the National Academies. This charge is broad, covering all aspects of water science, engineering, technology, and policy. As a standing body, WSTB combines decades of professional expertise with a unique neutral convening forum that allows it to provide a scientific and technological foundation for stewardship of water resources in the Unites States and beyond. Broad themes that WSTB might explore during this NSF award period will include impacts of climate change (such as drought, flooding, wildfire, and aridification) on water availability and quality; environmental justice and water equity for underserved populations; next generation drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems; water reallocation and reuse; managed aquifer recharge; impact of emerging contaminants (e.g. PFAS and micro/nano plastics) on water quality and availability; floodplain management; water systems engineering; aquatic ecosystem functioning and restoration; and legal, economic, and regulatory aspects of waterbodies. These are examples of areas where near-term input and engagement from the water science and engineering community would be critical as the Nation develops and implements a plan to achieve water security in the 21st century. This award is co-funded by the NSF CBET Environmental Engineering and EAR Hydrologic Sciences programs.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.