Preface to the Special Issue: Managing Water Resources for a Sustainable Future

Abstract

under the topic "Managing Water Resources for a Sustainable Future". The aim of the 11th Congress was to discuss innovation pathways in water resources management to address current and future challenges: growing uncertainty, greater extremes, increasing demand, water scarcity and global change. While traditional management practice is still effective, new technologies and approaches are emerging to better protect, regulate, allocate and recycle water resources. Sustainable management of water resources in the twenty-first Century requires a comprehensive understanding of the interaction of complex natural and social components in a changing context. The Congress was organized in eleven topical conferences, covering the full range of water resources management issues: ( 1) Hydroclimatic Extremes and Water Resources Management; (2) Water Quality and Water Treatment; (3) Hydrological Processes; (4) Urban Water Management; (5) Agricultural Water Management; (6) Water-Energy-Food Nexus; (7) Ecosystems and Environmental Processes; (8) Groundwater Hydrology, Contamination and Management; (9) Geoinformatics, Remote Sensing and Water Resources; (10) Global Change and Water Resources; and (11) Water Policy and Socioeconomic Issues.The Congress was an open forum where scientists and engineers from diverse cultures around the world promoted environmentally sustainable water resources management and discussed their understanding of water resources systems at a diversity of scales.