H13S:
Pursuing Water Security in Socio-Hydrological Systems I

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Session ID#: 33999

Session Description:
Water insecurity is multi-faceted, arising from the challenge of balancing human and environmental water needs together with complex social and political frameworks. Pursuing water security requires understanding of the dynamic feedbacks between humans and water systems at scales from local to planetary, over days to millennia. This session invites studies presenting approaches, concepts, models and datasets that help understand the nature and causes of water (in)security. Submissions are encouraged on all aspects of water security: water scarcity (competition, conflict, collaboration), water pollution and health, flooding (vulnerability, dynamic flood risk), water access (quality, quantity, reliability, equity) as well drivers (infrastructure, economic policy, trade, governance), in addition to water, energy, and food resource availability and distribution. Research on adaptation strategies or solutions to water insecurity, including lessons learned from past or contemporary societies are also invited. Papers will be considered for a special issue of Water Security, a new Elsevier journal.
Primary Convener:  Christopher A Scott, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Alice Frances Hill, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Alana M Wilson, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Veena Srinivasan, Organization Not Listed, Bangalore, DC, India
Chairs:  Christopher A Scott, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Alice Frances Hill, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Nelson, New Zealand
OSPA Liaison:  Veena Srinivasan, Organization Not Listed, Bangalore, DC, India

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Water Security Hydra (Invited) (218622)
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Water security and adaptive capacity for climate: Learning lessons from drought decision making in U.S. urban contexts (Invited) (264119)
Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado at Boulder, Western Water Assessment RISA, Boulder, CO, United States
Agricultural Water Conservation in the Colorado River Basin: Alternatives to Permanent Fallowing Research Synthesis and Outreach Workshops (279886)
Bradley Hunt Udall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States and Greg Peterson, Colorado State University, Colorado Water Institute, Fort Collins, CO, United States
A Quantitative Socio-hydrological Characterization of Water Security in Large-Scale Irrigation Systems (271549)
Afreen Siddiqi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, United States, Abubakr Muhammad, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Center for Water Informatics & Technology, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan and James L Wescoat Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Scarcity of Fresh Water Resources in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh (247083)
Sonia Binte Murshed, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and Jagath J Kaluarachchi, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Hydrological characterization of a pre-Inca artificial recharge system to alleviate drought and flooding in the Peruvian Andes (280651)
Boris F Ochoa-Tocachi, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, United Kingdom, Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Juan Diego Bardales, Path Profit, Sensor Vital, Lima, Peru, Erick Javier Antiporta, Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion - CONDESAN, Andean Basins, Lima, Peru, Bert De Bièvre, Fondo para la Protección del Agua - FONAG, Secretaría Técnica, Quito, Ecuador and Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems (iMHEA)

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