Equity in Water Information to Accelerate Water Consciousness and Community Capacity Building

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This project will accelerate and raise collective water education and engagement by increasing public scientific literacy, improving access to important water data, and inspiring action through the development of a mobile application and a feature-length documentary film. By leveraging multidisciplinary science, education, technology and film-making, in conjunction with diverse community partners, this project will build capacity for equitable water education and sustainable watershed stewardship strategies.

The objectives of the Water Consciousness Accelerator are to 1) synthesize community perspectives and values about water use using qualitative and quantitative socioeconomic methods 2) design innovative community education to increase community water consciousness, 3) develop an engaging user-friendly mobile Water Wise application in response to community needs and facilitate development of equity in water data governance, 4) create a feature length documentary film to accelerate convergence of socioeconomic water resources research and community capacity building. The convergence of these objectives will be a catalyst for community education and engagement in sustainable and equitable water resource management that will mobilize communities in the West and across the country.