World Water Futures: Solutions of Water Threats in an Era of Global Change

世界水未来：全球变化时代水威胁的解决方案

• 批准号: 10009000014-2017
• 负责人: Zink, Laura
• 金额: $ 369.53万
• 依托单位: University of Saskatchewan
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada First Research Excellence Fund
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=643269
• 关键词: World; Water; Futures; Solutions; Threats

The world is entering an era of immense water-related threats due to climate change and human actions. Floods, droughts, reduced water availability and degraded water quality threaten communities, nations and global sociopolitical and economic security. Global Water Futures will position Canada as a global hub for leading-edge, user-driven water science for the world’s cold regions. In these regions, snow, ice and frozen soils affect water availability, and global warming and human activities are creating unprecedented environmental change. Through an unprecedented assembly of leading Canadian water research expertise and international partners, Global Water Futures will improve our national capability to predict the risks and severity of potentially catastrophic floods and droughts (which have cost Canada an estimated $19 billion so far in this century). It will also balance competing water needs, and employ innovative strategies and policy tools to enable communities, industries and governments to reduce and manage water threats. By developing new, transdisciplinary science; new environmental monitoring systems and predictive modeling tools; and novel, user-focussed approaches to putting new knowledge into action, Global Water Futures will become an international provider of urgently needed risk management technologies, decision-making tools, and other evidence-based solutions to complex water challenges. These challenges include source-water quality issues that primarily affect northern and Indigenous communities, where 1,000 boil water advisories were in effect as of 2016. Global Water Futures will develop new apps and other innovative information and decision support tools to: enable policy-makers, resource managers and business leaders to make evidence-based plans; train the next generation of water scientists and policy-makers in ways of building a sustainable water future for Canada; and develop marketable, new monitoring and predictive tools and technologies to help address global water security issues, while improving Canada’s global competitiveness.

由于气候变化和人类活动，世界正在进入一个与水有关的巨大威胁时代。洪水、干旱、供水减少和水质恶化威胁着社区、国家和全球社会政治和经济安全。 全球水未来将把加拿大定位为世界寒冷地区领先的、用户驱动的水科学的全球中心。在这些地区，雪、冰和冻土影响水的供应，全球变暖和人类活动正在造成前所未有的环境变化。 通过前所未有地集合加拿大领先的水研究专业知识和国际合作伙伴，全球水期货将提高我们国家预测潜在灾难性洪水和干旱的风险和严重程度的能力（在本世纪迄今为止，加拿大已损失了约190亿美元）。它还将平衡相互竞争的水资源需求，并采用创新战略和政策工具，使社区、工业和政府能够减少和管理水资源威胁。 通过开发新的跨学科科学;新的环境监测系统和预测建模工具;以及将新知识付诸行动的新颖的、以用户为中心的方法，全球水期货将成为迫切需要的风险管理技术、决策工具和其他基于证据的解决方案的国际供应商，以应对复杂的水挑战。 这些挑战包括主要影响北方和土著社区的源水质量问题，截至2016年，已有1，000个锅炉水供水系统生效。全球水资源未来将开发新的应用程序和其他创新信息和决策支持工具，以： 使决策者、资源管理者和企业领导人能够制定循证计划; 培训下一代水科学家和政策制定者，为加拿大建设可持续的水资源未来; 开发适销对路的新的监测和预测工具和技术，以帮助解决全球水安全问题，同时提高加拿大的全球竞争力。