Border Water Resources: The Role of Groundwater in Creating Resiliency and Water Security. Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program-5 Year Strategic Plan-Texas (2022 – 2027)
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As surface water resources become exhausted in the border region, groundwater resources become a strategic element for both future water supplies and also a catalyzer to cope with climate uncertainty due its higher resilience capabilities. This reality requires strong community linkages, trust building and leadership development along and across the border. The development of data generation, visualization and exchange and the permanent communication interactions between different stakeholders across and along the border on transboundary groundwater resources, requires the implementation of an overarching communication strategy that builds into the existent individual efforts looking towards a regional border-wide approach. Effective communication as a strategic concept to understand transboundary water cooperation is not a novel approach. However, its implications for building water resilience capacity at the transboundary level constitutes a recent development for understanding and studying transboundary water basins around the world in the context of current and future environmental, economic, and social challenges. While analytic frameworks to understand water as catalyzer of water cooperation across countries have been developed previously, little research has been conducted on how to measure and operationalize the impacts of water cooperation efforts into the overall coping capacity of shared water systems across international boundaries. The groundwater border community and its growing alliances have acknowledged this and are pursuing a strong network that incorporates and prioritizes interdisciplinary research and its corresponding dialogue.
