Climate change will have a strong impact on watercourses, through alteration of precipitation and river flow patterns. In international water basins, a concerted response and joint adaption planing is required by riparian nations in order to deal with impacts like floods or droughts.

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In 1982, the US National Research Council established the Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) for studies of water resources and other water-related topics. bridges spoke with the WSTB's director Stephen Parker.

In 2007, a work group at EPA convened to examine the possible impacts of climate change on the US National Water Program. Now, their strategy is at hand, including 46 specific actions on how to adapt program implementation in light of climate change.

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Improved desalination technologies promise to turn seawater and brackish waters from saline aquifers and rivers into much-sought-after fresh water - making desalination more efficient and more cost-effective  compared with its predecessor technologies. 

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The Austrian engineer heads the US Federal Highway Administration's J. Sterling Jones Hydraulic Research Laboratory in Virginia, where exploratory advanced hydraulic research seeks to design the "intelligent" bridge of the future.  

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The Erwin-Schroedinger fellow spends a 16-month research stay at the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona, working on flood prediction and the impact of land use on water resources models.