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Increasingly, intensifying competition for water resources, changes in the hydro-climatic cycle, and degrading water quality are threatening both humans and ecosystems. These risks are of increasing concern for transboundary river basins, where coordination across international political boundaries adds a dimension of complexity to already challenging governance issues. The effective production of scientific knowledge and incorporation of that knowledge into decision-making is seen as a critical factor influencing how water-related risks are mitigated, and river basins are effectively governed.

Please join us in welcoming our new cohort: Corey Abramson, (Sociology); Melanie Hingle, (Nutritional Sciences); Kevin Anchukaitis, (Geography and Development); Christopher Weber, (Government and Public Policy).

The National Academies of Science of both the US and Mexico hosted a workshop regarding sustainability in transboundary arid lands in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, chaired by Christopher Scott, Director of the Udall Center (University of Arizona).

Researchers from the University of Arizona, and affiliates to the AQUASEC network from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and decision-makers met in a workshop in Guaymas to share experiences and devise solutions to water-security challenges.

A team of University of Arizona researchers and industry partners at Tucson Electric Power Co. have developed a replicable, collaborative framework that companies can use to integrate climate and environmental risk assessment into corporate business plans.

The University of Arizona (UA) Green Fund recently awarded funding for the project “Addressing environmental injustice around green infrastructure in Tucson, Arizona.” Led by Adriana Zuniga (CAPLA and Udall Center) and Andrea K. Gerlak (School of Geography and Development and Udall Center), the project seeks to address environmental injustice around green infrastructure in Tucson by designing, implementing and evaluating a green infrastructure project at STAR Academic High School.

The University of Arizona (UA) Green Fund recently approved $25,025 in funding for the project “Addressing environmental injustice around green infrastructure in Tucson, Arizona.” Funding will support green infrastructure (GI) design, implementation, and evaluation at STAR Academic High School (hereafter STAR), an alternative high school in the Sunnyside School District of South Tucson.

Udall Center Director, Christopher Scott, was named by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as a Public Engagement Fellow of the Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute. The 2018-19 cohort will focus on food and water security. Scott’s work addresses both outreach and “inreach” (establishing applied-research objectives through science-policy dialogues and public engagement).

In September 2017, a group of University of Arizona researchers from the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, the School of Government and Public Policy, and the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics traveled to Ayacucho, Peru, to participate in the Agua-Andes Congress. This event was organized by the Centro de Competencias y Agua—a key research partner in the International Water Security Network funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation in the U.K., and the Centro de Investigación Agua Andes. The congress was hosted by the Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga.

A team of University of Arizona researchers from the Udall Center and the School of Government and Public Policy traveled to Peru to participate in the Agua Andes Congress in Ayacucho. For three days, researchers, practitioners, members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), graduate students, and community members shared their experiences concerning water issues and green infrastructure.