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The Future is Now: How Current Research on Contaminants of Emerging Concern Can Inform Management of Water Resources
Citation:
Glassmeyer, S., E. Burns, M. Focazio, E. Furlong, M. Gribble, M. Jahne, S. Keely, A. Kennicutt, D. Kolpin, E. Medlock Kakaley, AND S. Pfaller. The Future is Now: How Current Research on Contaminants of Emerging Concern Can Inform Management of Water Resources. Presented at 2019 SETAC NA Annual Meeting, Toronto, CANADA, November 03 - 07, 2019.
Impact/Purpose:
This presentation and session is designed to be a high level overview of the challenges affecting the quantity and quality of water available in the future.
Description:
Population growth, aquifer depletion, infrastructure failure, saltwater intrusion, floods, drought: these are just a few of the environmental drivers which currently affect the quality and quantity of water available for human and ecosystem use. Such effects are projected to exacerbate future water crises. It is unlikely that we will have more clean, usable water than we currently have. What can we, as scientists and stewards of the future, do now to mitigate the impacts of these environmental conditions? This presentation is designed to be the introduction to the Wave session “What’s Next? Future Contamination Challenges for Water Resources and Identifying Novel Tools to Solve Them”. The goal of the session is to encourage a high-level interdisciplinary discussion. This presentation is an outgrowth of a paper commissioned by the American Geophysical Union for its Centennial collection on Grand Challenges in the Earth and Space Sciences. It will be tailored, based on the other submissions to the session, to set the groundwork for the discussion within the session.