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2021 Joint AWRA National Capital Water Symposium

Human Dimension to Resilient and Sustainable Water Management: Promoting Integrated Collaboration

April 15-16, 2021

Invited Speakers - Videos

Role	Speaker	Video
Keynote – April 15	Mustafa Ali	video
Keynote – April 16	Tom Kennedy	video
Luncheon Speaker April 16	Melissa D. Ho	video
Panel 1 Water Justice and COVID-19	Letitia Carpenter, US Water Alliance	video
	Sydney Collins, Buffalo Sewer Authority	video
	Maureen Taylor, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization	video
Panel 2 Social Hydrology: A Paradigm Shift Toward More Resilient Water Resources Management	Dr. Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	video
	Dr. Vikram Mehta - Center for Research on the Changing Earth System (CRCES), Catonsville, MD	video
	Dr. William Shuster - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI	video
Panel 3 Innovations in water resource management	Dr. Emily Berglund, North Carolina State University	video
	Dr. Peter Grevatt, The Water Research Foundation	video
	D. Jon Freedman, SUEZ’s Water Technologies & Solutions	video
Panel 4 Green water- infrastructure in circular cities	Anna Shipp, Executive Director, The Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia	video
	Dr. Cecilia Tortajada, University of Glasgow, U.K	video
	Karen Firehock,Director and co-founder of the Green Infrastructure Center (GIC)	video

Topical Session Slides

The wicked water problems of the Navajo Nation and efforts to address them - PDF

Sharon B. Megdal¹, Crystal Tulley-Cordova², Nikki Tulley³, Bidtah Becker⁴, Karletta Chief⁵

¹Director, University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center; ² Principal Hydrologist, Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources; ³Ph.D. student, University of Arizona Department of Environmental Science; ⁴ Associate Attorney, Navajo Tribal Utility Authority; ⁵ Associate Professor and Associate Extension Specialist, University of Arizona

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Symposium Presentations

BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS PDF

Session 1. Innovations in Water Resource Management

1. Regional opportunities for sustainable uses of stormwater runoff

2. The art of innovative collaborative ecosystem management

3. Investigating the agricultural water reuse adoption by U.S. farmers using a Bayesian Network Model

4. One Water Cities: Ideas and lessons learned from coast to coast

5. Rethinking water supply-demand studies in Utah

6. Partnering with water users and leveraging technology to improve water management outcomes in Nebraska

7. The Water Sustainability Atlas: Leading innovation in water resilience

8. Roundtable fosters collaboration among the collaborators: The Benefits and challenges of a voluntary water management network

9. Stormwater masterplanning for climate change/sea level rise adaptation at the Town of Lake Park, Florida

10. Refining water budgets in small Pacific Island drainage basins: Spatio-temporal variations in runoff coefficients derived from daily rainfall maps

11. Integrated water resource & optimization platform addresses competing water interests: A California Irrigation District case study

12. Quantifying irrigated landscape at a statewide scale: California’s approach and results

Session 2. Advances in Data Management & Emerging Technologies

1. Watershed delineation outcomes based on LiDAR and ASTER geospatial datasets

2. An experiment of updating more state variables with the assimilation of LAI in a land surface model over the global domain

3. Reliable drought prediction using long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network

4. Flood watch monitoring and observations for a high hazard dam – a Microsoft O365 solution

5. Comprehensive predictive analytics and causal inference framework for water main breaks with spatiotemporal data

6. Evaluating multiple, innovative forecast-informed reservoir operation (FIRO) alternatives at Lake Mendocino in the Russian River Basin

7. Recent advances in water temperature modelling and climate change for water resources management

8. Today’s climate resilient stormwater management infrastructure turns to the Cloud

Session 3. International Research & Global Perspectives

1. Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the Mekong Basin impacted by anthropogenic activities

2. Dying Yamuna River in Delhi

3. The economics of sustainable water supply solutions for Regional NSW, Australia

4. Water governance and climate change: Perspective SW region in Bangladesh

Session 4. Social Equity & Human Dimension of Water Management

1. Leveraging sustainable water investments to build social equity and climate resilience

2. Social equity in climate change adaptation programs: A statistical analysis of participation in the NYS Climate Smart Communities Program

3. Transforming changes in water management with systems thinking: A Decision framework for economic and conservation harmony

4. Human-centered selection of sustainable WASH solutions to challenges on water and sanitation access in underserved communities in the US and abroad

5. Incremental retreat: Leveraging checkerboard buyouts in flood prone neighborhoods

Session 5. Advances in Water Education & Outreach

1. Mobilizing local-level building characteristic data for better water resource planning and floodplain management

2. Human-centered design for virtual water education – How to create, validate, and launch online programs and events in the virtual Water Education Lab

3. Educating water utility leaders on the need for, approaches to, and funding opportunities for water asset management – a human-centered design approach to virtual water education

4. Bridging the gap of water and land use

5. Hack the Bay: Leveraging citizen science for an innovative approach to Chesapeake Bay restoration

Poster Presentations

1. COVID-19 wastewater surveillance at Siena College: Lessons from the field

2. Improvements to an urban campus rain garden

3. Estimating future precipitation extremes in Ellicott City, MD: Temporal downscaling, uncertainty quantification, and implementation in urban stormwater infrastructure design

4. In-tree stem water potential innovations

5. Hardness removal from the extremely hard LRGV tap water using electrically conductive concrete

6. Assessing the Effect of Clean River Projects on the downstream tributaries of the Anacostia River in Washington DC: A case study of Escherichia coli

7. Assessing Priority Pollutant Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Metal Elements in the Downstream Tributaries of the Anacostia River in Washington DC

8. COVID-19 pandemic and water demand

9. Statistical analysis of water demand changes