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Identifying Clean and Sustainable Water Solutions Through Modeling, Mesocosms, and Muddy Boots
Citation:
Mayer, P., B. Barnhart, M. Pennino, T. Newcomer-Johnson, J. Beaulieu, S. Kaushal, AND S. Duan. Identifying Clean and Sustainable Water Solutions Through Modeling, Mesocosms, and Muddy Boots. Clean and Sustainable Water Technology Initiative Workshop, Corvallis, Oregon, August 06 - 07, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
The Clean and Sustainable Water Technology Initiative Workshop organized by OSU is intended to bring together scholars from a diversity of disciplines including academic faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers to work toward maintaining, preserving, and improving clean and sustainable sources of water for human use. The presentation describes water quality and sustainability from an EPA perspective and research avenues by ORD to solve water quality problems of national concern, focusing on green infrastructure and urban restoration approaches applied across multiple projects and landscapes by EPA WED PI’s and colleagues.
Description:
Land use and environmental stressors, such as drought and deteriorating water infrastructure, can accelerate the depletion of freshwater resources that support humans and ecosystem services. As global demand for water and environmental stressors increase, the quality and availability of freshwater will be impacted on local to global scales. Management of global water security should consider the interaction between land use, environmental stressors, and global water demand. Using representative studies from around the world, plus our own body of research in human-dominated ecosystems, we will discuss environmental stressors impacting global water quantity and quality. We describe a conceptual framework for understanding and predicting global patterns of water use and water quality degradation, characterized by the increasing interaction between land use and environmental stressors. Finally, we will discuss the role of modeling, mesocosms, and field studies in identifying the most effective means of managing, securing, and improving water resources for people.