World Water Week in Stockholm 2017 focused on finding ways to better use, and reuse, the world’s increasingly scarce freshwater resources. Al Cho and Martin Doyle presented on the Data Drought: An Assessment of Global Hydrological Monitoring Systems.
The 2017 Hydroinformatics Conference addressed how the proliferation of data and cyberinfrastructure has created a new ecosystem for water related sciences in which to research, learn, and educate. Lauren Patterson gave one of the keynote addresses titled: “Internet of Water: Sharing and Integrating Water Data for Sustainability”.
The 11th National Water Monitoring Conference will be held in Denver in March 2019. This year’s conference will focus on themes that include tools to mine, share, and visualize water quality data. Peter Colohan, the Executive Director for the Internet of Water, will give one of the keynote addresses on the Internet of Water.