NSF Convergence Accelerator Track K: Equity in water information for community capacity building

水意识加速器项目将解决支持社区努力缓解水资源公平和管理问题的需求，这些问题由于日益加剧的气候变化和快速城市化的相互作用而变得更加复杂。该项目的主要目标是通过社区参与支持可持续流域管理战略，并提供符合社区需求和价值观的水教育和能力建设，积极应对这些日益严峻的挑战。该项目将通过开发一个移动应用程序和一部长篇纪录片，在提高集体用水意识方面发挥关键作用。通过这样做，这项努力将提高社区采用可持续水资源管理做法的能力。该项目将通过提高公众科学素养、改善获取重要水数据的途径和激励行动，加速和提高集体水教育和参与。通过利用多学科科学、教育、技术和电影制作，与不同的社区伙伴合作，该项目将建立公平的水教育和可持续流域管理战略的能力。水意识加速器的目标是：1)利用定性和定量的社会经济方法综合社区对用水的看法和价值观；2)设计创新的社区教育，以提高社区的水意识；3)开发一个吸引人的用户友好的移动Water Wise应用程序，以响应社区需求，促进水数据治理公平性的发展。4)制作长篇纪录片，加快社会经济水资源研究与社区能力建设的衔接。这些目标的汇合将促进社区教育和参与可持续和公平的水资源管理，这将动员西部和全国各地的社区。该项目将整合各种水文数据流，并使用混合方法研究收集有关公众对水的有益利用的看法和经济评价的信息。这将使研究小组能够更好地获得当地有关的水信息和水文数据，特别是在解决水公平问题的流域。这些知识还将为开发利用信息和通信技术利用水文数据的相关创新社区教育材料和工具提供信息。项目的第一阶段将产生一个基于区域利益相关者参与开发的移动水应用原型，第二阶段将在更大范围内实施研究设计，重点关注将在第一阶段确定的面临水公平问题的社区。该项目将在不同阶段和规模上产生更广泛的影响，包括吸引不同社区，使水文数据易于使用和获取。评估和阐明有关水资源利用的社区价值，开发和提供教育资源，并建立社区整体能力，以改善可持续水资源管理和管理。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。

The Water Consciousness Accelerator project will address the need to support communities in their efforts to mitigate water equity and management issues that are becoming more complicated due to the intersection of increasing climate variability and rapid urbanization. The primary goal of this project is to proactively respond to these mounting challenges by supporting sustainable watershed management strategies through community engagement, and provide water education and capacity building that are responsive to community needs and values. The project will have a pivotal role in increasing collective water consciousness through the development of a mobile application, and a feature-length documentary film. By doing so, the effort will increase community capacity to adopt sustainable water resources management practices. This project will accelerate and raise collective water education and engagement by increasing public scientific literacy, improving access to important water data, and inspiring action. By leveraging multidisciplinary science, education, technology and film-making, in conjunction with diverse community partners, this project will build capacity for equitable water education and sustainable watershed stewardship strategies. The objectives of the Water Consciousness Accelerator are to 1) synthesize community perspectives and values about water use using qualitative and quantitative socioeconomic methods 2) design innovative community education to increase community water consciousness, 3) develop an engaging user-friendly mobile Water Wise application in response to community needs and facilitate development of equity in water data governance, 4) create a feature length documentary film to accelerate convergence of socioeconomic water resources research and community capacity building. The convergence of these objectives will be a catalyst for community education and engagement in sustainable and equitable water resource management that will mobilize communities in the West and across the country. This project will integrate various hydrologic data streams and use mixed-methods research to collect information about public perceptions and economic valuations of the beneficial uses of water. This will allow the research team to improve access to locally relevant water information and hydrologic data, particularly in watersheds that are navigating water equity issues. This knowledge will also inform development of relevant innovative community education materials and tools that use information and communication technologies to leverage hydrologic data. Phase I of the project will result in a prototype of the mobile water application developed from regional stakeholder engagement, and Phase II will implement the research design at a larger scale with a focus on communities facing water equity issues that will be identified in Phase I. This project will have broader impacts at various stages and scales, including engaging diverse communities, making hydrologic data user-friendly and accessible, assessing and articulating community values around water use, developing and providing educational resources, and building overall community capacity to improve sustainable water resources management and stewardship.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.