As competition for water increases, groundwater professionals will be teaked with maximizing the resource to meet human, energy, agricultural, and ecosystem needs. This session will focus on assessing the status of the data and information infrastructure and what challenges it poses to effectively evaluate and manage groundwater in a water-constrained world. This session focuses on groundwater level and quality monitoring; water use monitoring data availability; data management and sharing; monitoring network development; identification and integration and of other data sources such as for stream flow, precipitation, snowpack; and decision-support tools.