As the climate continues to change, civil infrastructure and the natural resources that infrastructure interacts with are expected to experience increasing levels of stresses and failures. Projected increases in the frequency, duration, and severity of drought are expected to have multifaceted and widespread impacts on economic, social, health, and environmental conditions. Civil engineers have an important role to play in how drought management would need to be adapted over the next many decades. This special collection offers a sample of recent ASCE publications that provide insight into impacts of droughts on communities as well as on engineered solutions for managing droughts for public water supply, agriculture, industry, hydropower, navigation, water-based recreation, fish and wildlife, and water quality. This collection will assist diverse stakeholders, ranging from local to federal agencies, in the integrated management of drought impacted infrastructure and resources.

This collection is curated by Dr. Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Associate Professor, Oregon State University; Dr. Ximing Cai, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Dr. George F. McMahon, Vice President, National Expert, Water Management Arcadis U.S., Inc.; Dr. J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Senior Bilingual Climate and Water Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists; Dr. Juneseok Lee, Associate Professor, Manhattan College; Mr. Rich Juricich, Principal Engineer, Colorado River Board of California; Dr. Samuel Sandoval Solis Professor, University of California, Davis; Ms. Gabriela Rendon Herrera, University of California, Davis; Dr. Rosario Sanchez, Senior Research Scientist, Texas Water Resources Institute; and Dr. Saul Arciniega Esparza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ingenería.