Conference: Climate Resilience and Managing Water Resources

水是每一项人类活动的纽带。农业、发电、交通、公共卫生和工业过程依赖于水资源的持续可获得性和质量。当这些条件得不到满足时，可能会接踵而至的是严重的疾病、饥荒和冲突。但水资源复杂，水量和水质在地球上的分布并不一致，造成了水的不平等。随着持续的气候变化，这些差距只会变得更加严重，任何不成比例地感受到的影响都可能被放大。如果我们要提高对气候变化的适应能力，我们就需要改善水资源的获取、管理和公平。由于水的需求无处不在且无处不在，因此没有万能的解决方案。我们需要一个全社会的方法来解决水的弹性问题，我们还不知道这是什么。这个项目将召开一个为期三天的融合加速器研讨会，以更好地关注水资源方面现有的研究差距。这次研讨会将汇集来自学术界、工业界、政府、社会和众多其他利益相关者社区的专家，以确定先前狭隘的努力可能遗漏的关键研究差距，并将突出需要在进一步的、更大的计划中解决的高度优先领域。将特别注重研究界与业务方面(如美国农业部和其他机构)的广泛努力之间的联系，以实现最大的社会影响。通过这样做，讲习班将激励研究界，并在广泛的利益攸关方之间建立伙伴关系网络，特别是在学术界以外。研讨会的主要目的之一是确定未来几年将产生社会影响的应对气候变化和水资源的不同方法的战略和有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Water sits at the nexus of every human activity. Agriculture, power generation, transportation, public health, and industrial processes depend on consistent availability and quality of water resources. When these conditions are not met, significant disease, famine, and conflict can ensue. But water resources are complicated, and water quantity and quality are not consistently distributed around the planet, causing water inequities. These disparities are only getting worse with ongoing climate change, and any disproportionately felt effects are likely to be amplified. If we are going to improve resilience to climate change, we need to improve water resource access, management, and equity. Because water needs are ubiquitous and pervasive, there are no one-size-fits-all answers. We need a whole-of-society approach to addressing water resilience, and we don't really know what that is yet.This project will convene a three-day Convergence Accelerator Workshop to bring sharper focus on existing research gaps in water resources. This workshop will bring together experts from academia, industry, government, society, and numerous other stakeholder communities to identify critical research gaps that may have been missed by previous narrowly focused efforts and will highlight high priority areas to be addressed in a further, larger program. There will be particular focus on connections between the research community and extensive efforts on the operational side (such as at USDA and others) for maximum societal impact. In doing so, the workshop will galvanize the research community and build a network of partnerships between a wide variety of stakeholders, especially beyond academia. One of the main purposes of the workshop is to identify strategies and effectiveness of different approaches to climate resilience and water resources that will have societal impact in the next few years.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.