PA13D:
The Future of America's Water: Understanding the Landscape of Water Security Risk and Addressing the Associated Societal and Economic Impacts II Posters

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Session ID#: 12546

Session Description:
Water is critical for food and energy production, industrial and urban activities, and environmental services. The United States is currently burdened with aged infrastructure that loses 6,400 gigaliters of water per year and negatively impacts water quality, resulting in risks to the security of water supplies and public health. In addition, water policies across the Unites States are often regionally specific and do not consider the hydrologic system, leading to inefficient use and overuse of ground and surface water resources. We seek submissions that address America’s major water challenges and opportunities including the nexus of food-energy-water, the changing landscape of water risks (quality, infrastructure, spatial and temporal availability), the impacts of climate change and variability on policymaking, and methods for addressing these issues in the future at a national scale.
Primary Convener:  Mengqian Lu, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  James A Rising, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Vincent Carroll Tidwell, Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Emre Eftelioglu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Chairs:  James A Rising, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Mengqian Lu, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Vincent Carroll Tidwell, Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
4319 Spatial modeling [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4329 Sustainable development [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

MODFLOW-OWHM for Simulation and Analysis of the Water Cycle across the United States (179778)
Mustafa Alattar, Lehigh University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bethlehem, United States, Tara J. Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States and Tess A Russo, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States
More grain per drop of water: Screening rice genotype for physiological parameters of drought tolerance (197083)
Jackson Massanelli1, Madeleine Meadows-McDonnell2, Carly Konzelman1, Jessica B Moon1, Anuj Kumar3, Julie Thomas3, Andy Pereira3 and Kusum J. Naithani1, (1)University of Arkansas, Department of Biological Sciences, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (2)Smith College, Northampton, MA, United States, (3)University of Arkansas, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Fayetteville, AR, United States

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