Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Smart One Water (SOW)

充足的水的数量和质量是人类健康所必需的，大自然的健康呢？的生态系统。这对依赖水的商业企业也很重要。孤立的供水系统已不足以确保持续和公平的供水。 相反，工程水系统需要变得智能、互联、可持续和有弹性，以便为面临众多新挑战的社区妥善管理水服务。 目前的系统无法应对日益严重的极端事件、生态系统与人类社会需求之间的冲突、全球快速城市化和基础设施恶化。水文学、生态学、地球化学、工程学和系统分析的进步使人们能够重新设计更好的工程水系统。 Smart One Water Cyber-Physical-Social infrastructure ERC（SOW）旨在通过推进技术来更好地管理工程和自然水系统，从而改变人们与水服务互动的方式。SOW-ERC将促进新一代水系统的开发，通过自动化、高效监测、分析、控制和性能评估，提供有关水挑战的及时准确信息。 在全国范围内部署SOW范式需要开发新的网络基础设施，以支持（1）多个空间和时间尺度的系统分析，（2）创新的网络支持的观察和利益相关者参与技术，以及（3）新颖的智能和连接的决策支持。这些发展将改变水部门的治理、政策、工程方法和社会实践。该工作说明书将通过利用自然、社会、行为和建筑系统中的流域级实时信息，以及实现可持续性和弹性的机器智能，推动水资源部门的发展。这项规划赠款旨在创建合作研究生态系统，以促进新的和深化的伙伴关系，这些伙伴关系正在推进水系统的基本知识，以改善决策，治理和政策。利用跨多个学科的专业知识将推进跨越不同水系统领域的新知识和问题解决框架的愿景。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

Adequate quantity and quality of water is necessary for human health, the health of nature?s ecosystems. It is also important to commercial water-dependent commercial enterprises. Siloed water systems are no longer adequate to ensure continued and equitable access. Instead, engineered water systems need to become smart, connected, sustainable, and resilient to properly manage water services for communities facing a multitude of new challenges. Current systems are ill-equipped to deal with increasing extreme events, conflicts between ecosystem and human society demands, rapid global urbanization, and infrastructure deterioration. Advances in hydrology, ecology, biogeochemistry, engineering, and systems analysis enable the redesign of better engineered water systems. The Smart One Water Cyber-Physical-Social infrastructure ERC (SOW) aims to transform the way people interact with water services by advancing technologies for better management of engineered and natural water systems.The SOW-ERC will foster the development of a new generation of water systems that will provide timely and accurate information on water challenges through automation, efficient monitoring, analysis, control, and performance evaluation. Deploying the SOW paradigm at a national scale requires the development of new cyberinfrastructure that supports (1) system-of-systems analyses at multiple spatial and temporal scales, (2) innovative cyber-enabled observation and stakeholder engagement technologies, and (3) novel smart and connected decision support. These developments will transform water sector governance, policies, engineering methods, and social practices. The SOW will advance the water sector by use of basin-scale real-time information in natural, social, behavioral and built systems, and machine intelligence for operationalizing sustainability, and resiliency. This planning grant is aimed at creating collaborative research ecosystems to facilitate new and to deepen partnerships that are advancing fundamental knowledge of water systems to improve decision- making, governance, and policy. Leveraging expertise across multiple disciplines will advance a vision for novel knowledge and problem-solving frameworks that span the realm of diverse water systems.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.