ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Expanding knowledge and communications revolutions will enable the urgent transformation of traditional top-down water management required by the world water crisis if sustainability is to be achieved. Higher level multi-disciplinary and cross-functional actionable knowledge, including hydroinformatics and Earth Observation (EO) information, can be rapidly transmitted in all directions and to all stakeholders as water resources knowledge modelling and water information services (WISE). More public water debates will also help achieve a participatory and transparent approach. Valencia, Spain as a historic example and the recent construction of the Øresund fixed link between Denmark and Sweden demonstrate the integrated water management and good transparent governance needed worldwide. Today’s college educated younger (Y) generation, increasingly interconnected on all continents via internet, computers, and wireless communications, are a powerful motivated force for moving the continents toward the realization of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, including targets in the water sector.
