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In the face of a nonstationary and uncertain climate, smarter water management (SWM), which combines the ideas of both adaptive and integrated water management, has risen to prominence to ensure the sustainability and resilience of communities (Moss et al. 2013; Hering and Ingold 2012; Milly et al. 2008). Adaptation in water management is necessary for two primary reasons. First, in a nonstationary climate, the likelihood of extreme events is increasing; thus, in the future, natural and built systems will be subjected to forces that have not yet been observed. Second, because of the complex interdependence of the physical and societal processes driving environmental change, forecasts of these forces will not be sufficient to continue to support static management practices. This is particularly true in large-scale water resource operations, in which extreme floods and droughts are underscoring the need to provide …