Metro Center Director, Brad Gaolach, describes how our food, energy, and water systems are inextricably linked. Changes in one system result in changes in the other systems. Management decisions in one system also change the other two. With an increases in population and the impacts of climate change, the world needs to address this grand challenge by finding both global and local solutions. Brad describes how this Food-Energy-Water Nexus plays out in the Puget Sound region.