1. CSU/Riverside Global Water & Climate Initiative

2. What is the problem and why is it important?
Pressure on global water resources from population and climate change
Needs:
Thoughtful solutions
Agendas for action in policy, implementation, funding and education
Defined roles and responsibilities

3. Why it is a complex systems issue*
Drivers = Population, Development, Climatic Shifts
Pressures = Scarcity, Deprivation, Stress
States = Drought, Drained Aquifers, Poor Infrastructure
Impacts = Economic, Social, Environmental Decline, Conflicts
Responses = ???
What to do?
How to do it?
Who has responsibility?
*DPSIR is a systems concept to link problems and action

4. Multiple roles Governance authorities Mission agencies Universities
Ministries
Donors
Multilateral
institutions
CSU
Utilities
Development
banks
Private
sector
Regulators

5. Purposes of the workshop
Explain critical challenges
Identify thoughtful solution strategies
Create action agendas in research, education, data and decision support
Define roles and responsibilities
Craft messages and identify audiences
Outline strategies for Colorado State U

6. Expected follow-through
Messages to international organizations
Messages to U.S. policymakers
Messages to donors
Thought leadership through media
CSU strategic planning
Need: identify channels for follow-through

7. Critical challenges in three arenas (with examples of issues)
Hydrologic uncertainty and extreme events
Climatic shifts threaten people and places and cause hardship and migration
Capacity to assess and adapt to climatic shifts is insufficient
Politics, people and governance
Water governance is in a state of confusion in many places (UN statement)
Institutional arrangements to foster integration are inadequate
Water management and planning
Water managers lack expertise to create integrated solutions to complex problems
Water infrastructure is static and not adaptable to climatic shifts
Funding for water management solutions is inadequate

8. Example of an issue (With key questions for workshop outcomes)
Water Security in an Uncertain Climate
Key Issues
Research
Needs
Education
Other
Who should Lead?
Who are the Partners?
Potential Funding
Sources
Workforce Gaps
Need for new Degree or educational programs
How better position CSU/Partners to lead
Issue 1:
Non-stationary
rainfall distributions
Need better representation of local phenomena in global models
Need hydrology students to better understand climate models
Need appropriate output from climate models to serve hydrology community
Atmos/Civil
NSF, NASA, NOAA
Few people trained in both
Joint degree in Hydrology/ Atmos. Sci?
Adapt iWater to a joint degree program?

9. Another example
Research
Education
Other
Lead, partners
Funding
Workforce
Degrees
How
Infrastructure in tandem with governance*
Institutional research is needed to determine gaps in integration among technology and governance
Engineers must understand governance; managers should understand technology better
Needed: better role definition of authorities for infrastructure and governance
initiatives
Lead: Policy schools, training programs, governance authorities, donors
Funding for training along with project funds and development bank contributions
Gaps are evident because engineers focus on technical subjects; managers may not be aware of integrated solutions
Advanced degrees for water managers might be the best option
CSU and partners can seek funding for trial programs, for example, in a region such as Latin America or the Middle East.
* Full issue statement: Infrastructure must be complemented by demand management, stakeholder engagement, and governance that work under uncertainty, where prevention and precaution are more important than false exactness and an illusion of rigor.

10. Issues have many levels We seek high level issues that
are clearly-defined
Issue: Infrastructure must be complemented by demand management, stakeholder engagement, and governance that work under uncertainty, where prevention and precaution are more important than false exactness and an illusion of rigor.
Issue: Identify uncertainties and level of rigor/detail needed in analyses
Issue: Identify appropriate
management measures to complement infrastructure
Issue: Select appropriate infrastructure.
Issue: Identify barriers to decisions that consider infrastructure and management measures on integrated basis.
Issue: Identify decision support tools to blend measures and display critical decision variables
Issue: Determine governance strategies to use decision tools and address barriers to integration in decisions
Issue: Evaluate incentives for governance authorities to cooperate and advance integration
Issue: Address communication strategies to foster acceptance of rational displays of outcomes rather than political choices
Issue: Identify funding mechanisms to advance integrated approaches

11. Critical challenge 1: Threats from climatic shifts
Example of problem identification with potential workshop outcomes
Critical challenge 1: Threats from climatic shifts
Problem:
With shifting climate, serious drought is afflicting many areas of the world and causing food shortages, lack of water in cities and hardship among disadvantaged people.
Solution:
Tap new, unconventional sources and develop the storage and distribution infrastructures needed to increase water security for farms and cities
Research needs:
To understand climatic shifts and the decision and funding pathways to overcome barriers due to failed governance.
Education, training and workforce needs:
Leaders and supporters:
Local water authorities have the main responsibility, but state and national governments must provide the needed policy and empowerment. International and national agencies must lead in developing the research and capacity-building agendas and providing the resources to develop and disseminate new solution strategies
Funding sources:
CSU and partner roles:

12. Critical challenge 2: Impacts of climatic shifts cause turmoil
We envision three critical challenges in each of three categories
This is a proposed outline of the workshop report
Critical challenge 2: Impacts of climatic shifts cause turmoil
Problem:
Solution:
Research needs:
Education, training and workforce needs:
Leaders and supporters:
Funding sources:
CSU and partner roles:

13. Other Implementation Needs? Roles? Leadership, partnering?
Key questions for implementation agencies, governance authorities, funding organizations, and universities
Research Needs?
Education Needs?
Other Implementation Needs?
Roles? Leadership, partnering?
Potential Funding Sources?
Workforce Gaps?
New Degree or educational programs?
How better position CSU/Partners to lead?

14. Recommendations

15. Roles and Actions Implementation agencies Governance authorities
Funding organizations
Universities

16. “Big Ideas” to achieve the needed Solutions
Water Security in an Uncertain Climate
Key Challenges
“Big Ideas” to achieve the needed Solutions 1. 2. 3.