Resilience, Response, and Risk in Water Systems

Section 1: Water Resilience: Vulnerability and Response

i. Problem, perspective and challenges of water monitoring

ii. Water resilience to natural and human disasters

iii. Food-Energy-Water-Ecosystem Services Nexus

iv. Water supply, urbanization and climate change

v. Integrative risk assessment and water management



Section 2: Data science and engineering for water system

vi. Water Data: modeling, uncertainty, and security

vii. Standardization, Interoperability, and data sharing

viii. Analytics in Water Resource

ix. Visualization and synthesis of the multi-dimensional water system

x. Water Indices: specification, criteria and application



Section 3: Innovation in operational water management

xi. Engineering water supply for conservation, resiliency, and sustainability

xii. Water quality treatments and natural remediation of water contaminants

xiii. Shifts and trends of water quality analyses

xiv. Paradigms of life cycle, vulnerability and cost benefit analyses for water

xv. Modeling human behavior and decision making



Section 4: Policy and Mitigation

xvi. Bridging water quality and quantity for adaptive management

xvii. Preparedness and awareness in sanitization for health and prosperity

xviii. Science, sense and sensibility for water quality mitigation and policy making

xix. Collaborations and conflicting interest across government and interstate conflicts

xx. Language of water science: common ground for scientist, stake holders and managers