PA11E:
The Future of America's Water: Understanding the Landscape of Water Security Risk and Addressing the Associated Societal and Economic Impacts I

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Session ID#: 14766

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, Mengqian Lu, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Vincent Carroll Tidwell, Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, 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:

A Road Map for America's Water for the Next 20 Years (Invited) (121312)
Upmanu Lall1, James Rising2, Michelle W Ho3, Laureline Josset4, Maura Allaire3, Tara Troy5, Naresh Devineni6, Benjamin L Ruddell7 and Indrani Pal8, (1)Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States, (2)Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Columbia Water Center, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Columbia University, New York, United States, (5)Lehigh University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (6)CUNY City College of New York, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (7)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (8)University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Data Science Challenges at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water (Invited) (189349)
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Emre Eftelioglu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
How Conjunctive Use of Surface and Ground Water could Increase Resiliency in US? (161825)
Laureline Josset, Columbia University, New York, United States, James A Rising, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Tess A Russo, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, Tara J. Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States and Maura Allaire, Columbia University of New York, Columbia Water Center, Palisades, NY, United States
Beyond Flint: National Trends in Drinking Water Quality Violations (170296)
Maura Allaire, Columbia University of New York, Columbia Water Center, Palisades, NY, United States, Haowei Wu, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Synthesis of US Public Water Supply: Spatio-temporal Patterns and Socio-Economic Controls (172863)
Sankar Arumugam, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, John L Sabo, Arizona State University, Future H2O, Knowledge Enterprise Development, Tempe, United States, Kelli Larson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Tushar Sinha, Texas A & M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, United States, Seung Beom Seo, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Rajarshi Das Bhowmik, Indian Institute of Science, Department of Civil Engineering, Bangalore, India and Albert Ruhi, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Recent decline in crop water productivity in the United States: a call to grow “more crop per drop” (143679)
Michael T Marshall, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya, Kevin P Tu, Theiss Research, La Jolla, United States, Prasad Thenkabail, USGS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, United States

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