Codesigning a Water Security Observatory in the La Plata Basin workshop with regional stakeholders
Abstract
Water security is a critical issue within the La Plata Basin, one of the largest river basins in South America, and in the case of extreme weather events, water security issues are exacerbated due to the impacts of climate change. In the La Plata Basin, this challenge is pressing, affecting various sectors such as health, agriculture, infrastructure, and water resources. To address this issue, a Latin American Caribbean Initiative (LACI) transdisciplinary team consists of representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, with members across the private, public, and government sectors. By integrating multiple open-source databases, this project#s goal is to provide science-informed decision-support tools for reducing risk and/or improving response to disaster scenarios on multi-annual to multi-decadal time scales. In a first stage, the project aims to bring together these stakeholders (both researchers and policy-makers) in a series of virtual and in-person water security workshops aimed to share best practices and to facilitate a to promote regional collaboration, building guidelines for the future design of a comprehensive data observatory platformfor water security in the La Plata Basin.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 09, 2024
- Source ID
- N629092412098
Entities
People
- Marco Billi
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Chile