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Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views expressed in this Forum article do not necessarily reflect the views of ASCE or the Editorial Board of the journal.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Patrick M. Reed, Kenneth Strzepek, Jim Yoon, Fernando Miralles Wilhelm, Amanda Giang, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback which improved this manuscript. Co-author M. Giuliani was partially supported by the IN-WOP—Mind the Water Cycle Gap: Innovating Water Management Optimisation Practice research project funded by the Water Joint Programming Initiative 2018 (Grant No. JPI18_00104).

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Received: Dec 10, 2021
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Published online: May 2, 2022
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford Univ., Cambridge, MA 02139 (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3289-2237. Email: [email protected]
Antonia Hadjimichael, Aff.M.ASCE https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7330-6834
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA 16802; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA 16802. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7330-6834
Julianne Quinn, A.M.ASCE https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7806-4416
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Engineering Systems and Environment, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7806-4416
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1357-599X
Matteo Giuliani
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14850. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0854-1819
Anjuli Jain Figueroa, A.M.ASCE
Research Affiliate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Bethany Gordon, S.M.ASCE https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3759-6277
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Engineering Systems and Environment, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3759-6277

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