Articles | Volume 29, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2961-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2961-2025
Education and communication
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15 Jul 2025
Education and communication |  | 15 Jul 2025

Thirsty Earth: a game-based approach to interdisciplinary water resource education

Lauren McGiven, Kinsey Poland, Caleb Reinking, and Marc F. Müller

Model code and software

Thirsty Earth v0 M. F. Muller https://tinyurl.com/37xnjjp5

Thirsty Earth v1 K. Poland and C. Reinking https://thirsty-earth.crc.nd.edu

crcresearch/Thirsty-Earth: Zenodo DOI Release 2025.07.10 (2025.07.10) Taylor Wiley et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15855799

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Short summary
Thirsty Earth is an educational game where students are farmers making water decisions amid climate uncertainty, common-pool costs, and resource constraints. The game is web-based and adapted for remote learning either as a light Google Sheets version or as a fully interactive graphical interface. It bridges technical water management and governance concepts from the social sciences, providing experiential interdisciplinary learning that traditional science and engineering curricula often overlook.
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