Symposium on Scientific and Engineering Tools to Address Grounwater Depletion

1643241乔治·F·平德这笔赠款是为了支持一个关于解决地下水枯竭问题的科学和工程工具的研讨会。研讨会将于2016年10月11日在华盛顿特区举行。虽然存在各种分析和管理地下水的科学和工程工具，但它们分散在大学的多个学科中，此外，许多政府机构都有这方面的专家。拟议的研讨会将汇集一个由杰出的科学家和工程师组成的跨学科小组，他们跨越了这些学科和行政边界。好处将是：1.这些专家之间交流知识状况；2.确定解决地下水枯竭问题所需的工具；3.改进处理这一关键问题的战略。正如NAE的重大挑战清单中所述，“……今天生活的人中，大约每六个人中就有一个没有足够的水，两倍以上的人缺乏需要水的基本卫生设施……”在各种淡水来源中，地下水占30%。在美国的一些地区，它是一种开采的资源，不容易得到补充。研讨会致力于对这一资源进行有效的评价、监测和管理。这次研讨会有可能对大量人的生活质量产生重大影响。该专题讨论会的目的是提高人们对水资源这一重大挑战的认识并继续进行讨论，并为制定更有效地应对这一挑战的国家政策提供科学依据。

1643241 Pinder, George F.This grant is to help support a symposium on scientific and engineering tools to address groundwater depletion. The symposium will be held on October 11, 2016, in Washington DC. While various scientific and engineering tools for the analysis and management of groundwater exist, they are dispersed across a number of disciplines in universities, and additionally experts on this topic are found in many government agencies. The proposed symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scientists and engineers that crosses these disciplinary and administrative boundaries. The benefits will be 1. communication of the state of knowledge between these experts and 2. identification of the tools needed to address groundwater depletion and 3. an improved strategy to deal with this critical problem. As stated in the list of grand challenges of the NAE, "...about one out of every six people living today do not have adequate access to water and more than double that number lack basic sanitation, for which water is needed...." Of the various sources of fresh water, groundwater makes up thirty percent. In some areas of the US it is a mined resource and not easily replenished. The symposium is dedicated to the effective evaluation, monitoring and management of this resource. This symposium has the potential to make a major impact on the quality of life of an enormous number of people. The symposium is intended to stimulate a greater awareness and continuing discussion of the critical challenge of water resources and provide scientific fundamentals to be drawn upon for the development of national policies to more effectively address the challenge.