Xander Huggins, University of Victoria, Department of Civil Engineering, Victoria, Canada, Thomas P Gleeson, Civil program at UVic, Victoria, BC, Canada, Samuel C Zipper, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States, Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Tara Troy, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada and Jay S Famiglietti, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada