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This article represents the second report by an ASCE Task Committee "Infrastructure Impacts of Landscape-driven Weather Change" under the ASCE Watershed Management Technical Committee and the ASCE Hydroclimate Technical Committee. Herein, the 'infrastructure impacts" are referred to as infrastructure-sensitive changes in weather and climate patterns (extremes and non-extremes) that are modulated, among other factors, by changes in landscape, land use and land cover change. In this first report, the article argued for explicitly considering the well-established feedbacks triggered by infrastructure systems to the land-atmosphere system via landscape change. In this report by the ASCE Task Committee (TC), we present the results of this ASCE TC's survey of a cross section of experienced water managers using a set of carefully crafted questions. These questions covered water resources management, infrastructure resiliency and recommendations for inclusion in education and curriculum. We describe here the specifics of the survey and the results obtained in the form of statistical averages on the 'perception' of these managers. Finally, we discuss what these 'perception' averages may indicate to the ASCE TC and community as a whole for stewardship of the civil engineering profession. The survey and the responses gathered are not exhaustive nor do they represent the ASCE-endorsed viewpoint. However, the survey provides a critical first step to developing the framework of a research and education plan for ASCE. Given the Water Resources Reform and Development Act passed in 2014, we must now take into account the perceived concerns of the water management community. © 2015 Hossain et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Hossain, F., Arnold, J., Beighley, E., Brown, C., Burian, S., Chen, J., Mitra, A., Niyogi, D., Pielke, R., Sr., Tidwell, V., Wegner, D. What do experienced water managers think of water resources of our nation and its management infrastructure? PLoS ONE Volume 10, Issue 11, 6 November 2015, Article number e0142073.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142073

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2015

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10.1371/journal.pone.0142073

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Hossain, F., Arnold, J., Beighley, E., Brown, C., Burian, S., Chen, J., Mitra, A., Niyogi, D., Pielke, R., Sr., Tidwell, V., Wegner, D. What do experienced water managers think of water resources of our nation and its management infrastructure? PLoS ONE Volume 10, Issue 11, 6 November 2015, Article number e0142073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142073

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