This work is supporting land and water managers for evaluation of GDEs with respect to climate, groundwater, and resource management.
"In some ways, the science is still catching up with the need of water managers for high-quality projection," he said.
The proposed approach provides a useful tool to water managers for quantifying the amount of dew that could be harvested as a valuable water resource in arid, semiarid and water stressed regions.
With soil parched, reservoirs depleted and streams trickling at rates typical of a record summer heat wave, water managers for New York City and surrounding communities are scurrying to find new ways to increase supplies and cut demand.
California water managers, for example, have been somewhat skeptical of a recent finding by Dr. Famiglietti that from October 2003 to March 2010, aquifers under the state's Central Valley were drawn down by 25 million acre-feet — almost enough to fill Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir.
And that leaves the water managers for the city, New Jersey and communities small and large along the East Coast expressing growing concern as they log onto the Internet every day to check government maps of stream and river currents, where colored dots denote the strength of flows.
Fergus O'Brien, coastal waters manager for Welsh Water, said the new European regulations were "twice as tight" as the current water quality standard.
Besides now being Waters' manager for more than a decade, Odenkirk introduced him to her husband, Bob Odenkirk, a personal hero of Waters.
