WORKSHOP: "Central Valley California Rural Water Infrastructure Development and Outreach Project"

1536221Mosher中央谷加州农村水基础设施发展和推广项目在美国，成千上万的家庭无法获得可靠的清洁饮用水。这一现实影响了美国的经济和国家安全，因为压力最大的地区往往是美国大部分食品、纤维、矿产和能源的供应地。该项目的目标是通过开发一种方法来缓解这一问题，该方法将允许当地社区结合资源来克服这一规模问题，并通过确定提供财政支持的潜在公私合作伙伴关系来解决其系统的维护和升级积压问题。这项工作将集中在加利福尼亚州的圣华金山谷作为测试案例，利用利益相关者驱动的研讨会来确定当地问题，并发展必要的社区关系和支持。该项目将开发一种新的独特方法，通过利益相关者驱动的活动和权衡分析相结合，帮助这些农村社区。这种方法将为将农村社区聚集在一起，利用共同资源和增强其经济实力奠定基础，最终目标是利用他们的集体参与，寻求公私伙伴关系，为必要的系统和基础设施改善提供资金。虽然过去已经使用了利益相关者驱动的流程、公共方法和权衡分析，但这一努力将是第一次将三者结合起来，同时为该地区开发工程和金融解决方案。圣华金河谷是加州发展最快的地区之一，2000年至2010年的平均增长率为21.6%，人口约为400万。人口主要是西班牙裔（95.6），收入中位数几乎是加州中位数的一半（22,792美元，2012年为58,328美元）。2006年，圣华金河谷的六个县的居民低于联邦贫困线的比例最高，约有49%的居民生活在贫困中。只有不到三分之一的人接受过高中或更高的教育。从2008年到2012年，圣华金河谷约有四分之三（73%）的土地美国的经济生产来自农业、林业、渔业和狩猎，运输和仓储（4%）、住宿和食品服务（3%）、零售业（3%）、制造业（3%）、公用事业（2%）以及行政支持和废物管理（2%）构成了平衡的大部分。大约50%的人口从事农业生产，生产300多种作物，约占全国农业产量的13%。上述统计数据表明，该项目将对一个主要是西班牙裔和贫困社区产生广泛影响，该社区缺乏解决这一难题的教育背景和技术专长。通过帮助社区提高当地供水的可靠性和质量，该项目还可以通过增加工人生产以及减少与水质疾病相关的医疗费用，为地方、区域和国家经济做出贡献。

1536221Mosher Central Valley California Rural Water Infrastructure Development and Outreach Project Within the United States, hundreds of thousands of families do not have reliable access to clean drinking water. This reality impacts the US economy and national security because the areas under the most stress tend to supply much of the nation's food, fiber, mineral, and energy resources. The objective of this project is to mitigate this problem by developing a methodology that will allow local communities to combine resources to overcome this scale issue and to address the maintenance and upgrade backlog of their systems by identifying potential public-private partnerships that will provide financial support. The effort will focus on the San Joaquin Valley in California for its test case, using stakeholder driven workshops to identify the local issues and develop the necessary communal relationships and support. This project will develop a new and unique approach for helping these rural communities through a combination of stakeholder driven activities and tradeoff analyses. The approach will form the foundation for bringing rural communities together to leverage common resources and increase their economic power, with the end goal of using their collective involvement to pursue private-public partnerships that will fund the necessary system and infrastructure improvements. While stakeholder driven processes, communal approaches, and tradeoff analyses have been used in the past, this effort will be the first to combine the three with the goal of simultaneously developing engineered and financial solutions for the region. The San Joaquin Valley is one of the fastest growing regions in California with an average growth rate from 2000-2010 of 21.6 % and a population of approximately 4 million people. The population is predominantly Hispanic (95.6) with a median income that is nearly half of the California median ($22,792 vs. $58,328 in 2012). In 2006, six counties in the San Joaquin Valley had the highest percentage of residents below the federal poverty line with approximately 49 % of the residents living in poverty. Less than 1 in 3 has a high school education or better. From 2008-2012, about three-quarters (73 %) of the San Joaquin Valley?s economic production is from agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, with transportation and warehousing (4 %), accommodation and food services (3 %), retail trade (3 %), manufacturing (3 %), utilities (2 %) and administrative support and waste management (2 %) making up the majority of the balance. Approximately 50 % of the population works in agriculture producing over 300 crops that represent approximately 13 % of the national agricultural production. The statistics above show that this project will provide broad impacts to a mostly Hispanic and impoverished community that lacks the educational background and technical expertise to tackle such a difficult problem. Through helping communities increase the reliability and quality of their local water supplies, this project may also contribute to local, regional, and national economies by increasing worker production as well as by reducing health costs associated with water quality ailments.