H22G:
Water Data Drought: Addressing Limited Water Demand Data for Research and Policy I

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Session ID#: 25227

Session Description:
Forecasting water demand within key sectors as a function of consumer preferences, climate, and water price is critical for any assessment of sustainability or resilience of water, energy and food systems. Innovation in demand forecasting methods has been limited by the lack of effective data collection and access to such data. Furthermore, the U.S. lags behind other countries concerning an understanding of demand at a national level.

How can we address this water data challenge? Emerging technologies and development of web-based data platforms provide a broad range of possibilities to transform data availability as well as identify strategic policy and investment directions.

The panelists will draw on their extensive experience with water demand across sectors to lay out possible strategies to address this situation. The panel will to discuss key data gaps, innovative approaches for demand monitoring and forecasting, institutional arrangements for data collection and distribution, and emerging technologies.

Primary Convener:  Maura Allaire, University of California Irvine, Urban Planning and Public Policy, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Laureline Josset, Columbia University, New York, United States, Benjamin L Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Chairs:  Maura Allaire, University of California Irvine, Urban Planning and Public Policy, Irvine, CA, United States and Benjamin L Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Laureline Josset, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1876 Water budgets [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6314 Demand estimation [POLICY SCIENCES]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

How the USGS collects national water-use data, and why it needs to be improved to aid hydrologic research (Invited) (Invited) (226481)
Scott C. Worland, USGS Tennessee Water Science Center, Nashville, TN, United States
EIA’s Role in Energy Data Collection, With Some Notes on Water Data (Invited) (240399)
Thomas Joseph Leckey, US Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States
Water use data to enhance scientific and policy insight (Invited) (244085)
Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
Water Accounting Priorities in the American West (Invited) (254282)
Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
WetDATA Hub: Democratizing Access to Water Data to Accelerate Innovation through Data Visualization, Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Applications (Invited) (285015)
William Sarni, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
How Far Can Water Data Take You in Managing Water Diversion and Use (Invited) (210004)
Ellen Levin, San Francisco Water Power, San Francisco, CA, United States

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