Water is a precious resource, as the five years of extreme drought Californians have just lived through teach us. The lesson learned is how the private and public sector manage water can help take stress off of watersheds. To better manage water, open and shared data is necessary.
Presently, the value of water data has not been widely documented, communicated or quantified. An internet of water (IOW) would make water data effectively integrated. And making public water data open and digitally accessible is a necessary step in using water data for sustainability. Those are the main findings from a series on water data the Aspen Institute Dialogue Series recently hosted between May 2016 and February 2017.
Out of the meetings came a report on how to design and launch an “internet of water” database that connects data producers, hubs and users. Such a database would allow water-related data and information to be connected and transmitted in real time. The report recommends three actions. The first one is to create an IOW. To do so, a vision for sustainable water resource management needs to be stated, and stewardship needs to be enabled through open, shared and integrated public water data.
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