[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Answering Questions About the World's Water Security Problems

USDA, 2015, USDA blog — Environment & Sustainability

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

Coverage of the work in USDA blog.

## What they found (results)

ThinkWater, backed by a $900,000 NIFA grant, sets out to improve water security by building meta-thinking about water — teaching people to ask deeper questions rather than absorb facts — on a platform developed by the crowd and evolved through use.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A USDA "Science Tuesday" blog post by Jim Dobrowolski of NIFA introducing ThinkWater and its water-security aims.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/answering-questions-about-worlds-water-security-problems)