Paolo Benettin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, ENAC/IIE/ECHO, Lausanne, Switzerland, Magali Furlan Nehemy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Mitra Asadollahi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Andrea Rinaldo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Lausanne, Switzerland; Università di Padova (Italy), ICEA, Padova, Italy and Jeffrey McDonnell, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada