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Water resources systems analysis (WRSA) combines quantitative and qualitative methods informed by multiple scientific disciplines, serving many broad water-related societal goals such as providing safe drinking water and mitigating floods and other disasters. Critically, each of the pillars of WRSA are complementary and all are needed to advance WRSA. To ensure robust findings in specific cases while building WRSA process understanding, we pose the following questions to WRSA researchers: • Are the process representations in the model appropriate for the scope and time scale of the motivating problem?. [Extracted from the article]

Panel discussions about water resources systems analysis (WRSA) at the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Congress have brought together different generations of WRSA researchers and practitioners since 2012. There is an argument that a WRSA problem is never truly solved, but rather a given solution is simply accepted and implemented - an important point to make to WRSA students. Monitoring and ex post evaluation are not often done in WRSA projects, but they are critical to inform future studies and refine the WRSA techniques. [Extracted from the article]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]