  This work presents ground-based spectrally-resolved water emission at R =
30000-100000 over infrared wavelengths covered by JWST (2.9-12.8 $\mu$m). Two
new surveys with iSHELL and VISIR are combined with previous spectra from
CRIRES and TEXES to cover parts of multiple ro-vibrational and rotational bands
observable within telluric transmission bands, for a total of $\approx160$
spectra and 85 disks (30 of which are JWST targets in Cycle 1). The general
expectation of a range of regions and excitation conditions traced by infrared
water spectra is for the first time supported by the combined kinematics and
excitation as spectrally resolved at multiple wavelengths. The main findings
from this analysis are: 1) water lines are progressively narrower from the
ro-vibrational bands at 2-9 $\mu$m to the rotational lines at 12 $\mu$m, and
partly match a broad (BC) and narrow (NC) emission components, respectively, as
extracted from ro-vibrational CO spectra; 2) rotation diagrams of resolved
water lines from upper level energies of 4000-9500 K show vertical spread and
curvatures indicative of optically thick emission ($\approx 10^{18}$ cm$^{-2}$)
from a range of excitation temperatures ($\approx 800$-1100 K); 3) the new 5
$\mu$m spectra demonstrate that slab model fits to the rotational lines at $>
10$ $\mu$m strongly over-predict the ro-vibrational emission bands at $< 9$
$\mu$m, implying non-LTE vibrational excitation. We discuss these findings in
the context of emission from a disk surface and a molecular inner disk wind,
and provide a list of guidelines to support the analysis of
spectrally-unresolved JWST spectra.
