B130
Water and Society: Adapting institutions to address future water resource challenges
Session ID#: 83562
Session Description:
An immense body of literature has explored how climatic and socioeconomic changes can fundamentally transform the magnitude and temporal regime of the supply and demand of water in various water-related sectors. Two effective responses to these potential challenges are (1) improving the operation of water infrastructures and (2) revisiting and potentially improving current laws and regulations. However, imposing such policies will likely create winners and losers. Although infrastructures, institutions, and their indirect implications are usually region specific, learning from others’ experiences provides deeper understanding of the problems as well as viable options for responding to them. Therefore, this session seeks a platform for sharing experiences related to policy-level alterations of water resources as well as consequences from different parts of the world. We invite works that address decisions related to reservoir operations; surface- and ground-water regulations; and positive and negative consequences of these policies.
Index Terms:
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]
Primary Convener: Keyvan Malek, Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Conveners: Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Kirti Rajagopalan, Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pullman, WA, United States
Primary Liaison: Keyvan Malek, Cornell University, CEE, Ithaca, WA, United States
Agricultural yield loss due to interruption of western U.S. water rights in a future climate (558959)
Matthew Allen Yourek1, Kirti Rajagopalan2, Mingliang Liu3, Jan Boll1 and Jennifer C Adam3, (1)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pullman, WA, United States, (3)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States
Technology for trade: adapting information technology and institutions to improve water use for agriculture (Invited) (568092)
Julie Padowski, Washington State University, State of Washington Water Research Center, Pullman, WA, United States, Jonathan Yoder, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States and Kirti Rajagopalan, Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pullman, WA, United States
Evaluation of ENSO Impact on Hydroclimatic Variability (573213)
Chen Xu1, Mingliang Liu1, Jennifer C Adam1, John T Abatzoglou2 and Kirti Rajagopalan3, (1)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pullman, WA, United States
Snowpack, Surface Water Supply, and the Effect of Climate on Agriculture in the Western U.S. (602814)
Nicholas Potter1, Michael Brady1 and Kirti Rajagopalan2, (1)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pullman, WA, United States
Evaluation of Seasonal Forecast Skill for Agricultural Water Availability in a Western U.S. River System (617682)
Ashish Kondal1, Mingliang Liu1, Katherine Hegewisch2, John T Abatzoglou2, Michael Brady3, Jennifer C Adam1 and Kirti Rajagopalan4, (1)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (4)Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pullman, WA, United States
Capturing the effect of human influence in downscaling irrigating water availability estimates: an evaluation in the western US. (627336)
Kirti Rajagopalan1, Timothy Sulser2, Claudio Stockle3, Dave Gustafson4, Greg J Thoma5, John Kruse6, Pon Intarapapong7, Marty Matlock8, Gerrit Hoogenboom9 and Senthold Asseng9, (1)Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, United States, (3)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (4)ILSI Research Foundation, St. Louis, MO, United States, (5)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States, (6)World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services, LLC, Columbia, MO, United States, (7)WAEES LLC., Columbia, MO, United States, (8)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (9)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
