Panel Talk: Lessons Learned: Creating an Interdisciplinary Team to Address a FEW Nexus Hotspot in San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is home to a rapidly urbanizing population, with major agricultural activity surrounding the city, and a growing production of oil and natural gas in its underlying Eagle Ford shale play. The region of San Antonio represents a resource hotspot whose stakeholders compete across sectors for the same limited water, land, and financial resources and whose projection trends indicate continued growth across those sectors. This presentation will include lessons learned from the experience of creating a campus wide interdisciplinary group to address the resource challenges facing the San Antonio region at Texas A&M’s Water-Energy-Food Nexus Initiative (WEFNI). The presentation will also present a brief overview of the questions and research conducted under thematic foci that include data and modeling, trade-off analysis, water for food, water for energy, and governance.