Water Science and Technology Board and Its Activities

这一NSF奖项将为美国国家科学院、工程和医学研究院(NASEM)地球和生命研究部水科学和技术委员会(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分享知识提供了重要的召集职能。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达成协议，监督一系列共识研究、研讨会和其他活动。在其每半年举行一次的会议上，理事会邀请就具有国家和全球重要性的重大和新出现的与水有关的专题进行介绍和协调讨论。本授权期内拟议讨论的议题将包括：气候变化及相关极端天气事件(如干旱、洪水和野火)从水文学和工程学角度对水量、水质和可获得性的影响；对新出现的关切污染物(CECs)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平等；与相关利益攸关方和传统知识持有者(包括土著、农村和代表性不足的社区)合作，共同产生关于水资源管理的知识。在此授奖期间，WSTB还将利用NSF的核心支持资金，寻找与其他联邦机构接触的机会。这一战略参与将使WSTB能够更好地了解联邦水景观，并为WSTB和NSF提供机会，在国家制定和实施在不断变化的气候下实现水安全的计划时，在与水相关的重大挑战和研究需求方面确定协同效应。水对所有形式的生命的存在都是必不可少的。在美国，水基础设施的发展扩大了对水资源的控制和即时可获得性，远远超出了它们的自然地表或地下边界，但也往往超出了它们的天然补给能力。社会对饮用水、农业和工业用途的清洁水的需求不仅取决于技术的不断进步，还取决于对全球水循环及其与其他自然地球系统的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越来越多地受到新出现的关注污染物(CECs)的污染，如全氟辛烷磺酸和微塑料废物，这一问题变得越来越紧迫。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。这一指控范围很广，涵盖了水科学、工程、技术和政策的方方面面。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结合在一起，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在本NSF颁奖期内可能探讨的广泛主题将包括：气候变化(如干旱、洪涝、野火和干旱)对水资源供应和质量的影响；环境正义和服务不足人口的水公平；下一代饮用水、废水和雨水系统；水资源的重新分配和再利用；有管理的含水层补给；新出现的污染物(如PFAS和微/纳米塑料)对水质和可获得性的影响；泛滥平原管理；水系统工程；水生生态系统的功能和恢复；以及水体的法律、经济和监管方面。在国家制定和实施在21世纪实现水安全的计划时，这些领域的近期投入和水科学和工程界的参与将是至关重要的。该奖项由NSF CBET环境工程和EAR水文科学项目共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.