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Present at the Creation:

Water Resources and the

Cyber-infrastructure

Revolution

Don Cline

Director, National Water Center

National Weather Service, NOAA

Why? Life and Property

Water Security

Economic well-being

What? Actionable, well-integrated water intelligence

Where? Global to street level

How? Cyber-infrastructure

When? Now

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Global Water Security During the next 10 years:

many countries important to the United States will experience water problemsshortages, poor water quality, or floodsthat will risk instability and state failure, increase regional tensions, and distract them from working with the United States on important US policy objectives.

Between now and 2040:

fresh water availability will not keep up with demand absent more effective management of water resources.

Water problems will hinder the ability of key countries to produce food and generate energy, posing a risk to global food markets and hobbling economic growth.

As a result of demographic and economic development pressures, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia will face major challenges coping with water problems.

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Intelligence Community Assessment., ICA-2012-08, 02-February-2012

Global Risks Landscape 2015

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Insight Report: Global Risks 2015, 10th Edition, World Economic Forum, Geneva.

Global Risks 2015 Interconnections

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Insight Report: Global Risks 2015, 10th Edition, World Economic Forum, Geneva.

Actionable Water Intelligence

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Flooding Water

Quality Water

Availability Drought

Climate Change

Need integrated understanding of near- and long-term outlook and risks

Hydrologic Economic Demographic Environmental Political

Integrated Modeling and Data

Actionable Water Intelligence

Global to Street Scale

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GLOBAL

NATIONAL REGIONAL WATERSHED

STREET