Data-driven decision-making for water security

Every day we make observations to inform our decisions - whether it is taking your loved one's temperature to establish if they have a fever or checking your fuel gauge or range on your vehicle's display. It provides us with the comfort of knowing and decision-making information. In 1954, Peter Drucker coined the now well-known cliché "What gets measured gets managed". It follows then that what does not get measured does not get properly managed. Recently, we have witnessed the immense power of data and the interpretive power of people and machines - these were the observation and imaging of a black hole (M87) and the impressive predictions of the national and provincial election results. We have the capabilities to conceptualise and develop some of the best descriptions of the physical world but we need observations to convert these conceptualisations into meaningful predictive and management models.
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