Environmental Data, Model Projections and Risk Assessment Frameworks Translated for the Water Sector: Examples from Collaborations between Utilities and EPA's Creating Resilient Water Utilities
Abstract
Natural hazards and extreme events pose an immediate and long-term threat to the continuity of water utility operations and water resource availability for communities. To effectively adapt and reduce the risks associated with these hazards, water utilities across the country need to actively coordinate across multiple sectors in close consultation with regional entities and community leaders. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Creating Resilient Water Utilities (CRWU) initiative has provided utilities and communities of all sizes with opportunities to learn about these challenges and how other utilities have assessed their risks and decided on their plan to respond. This session will communicate the real-world challenges and accomplishments of water sector utilities in adapting to the impacts of natural hazards and extreme events, using CRWU initiative tools and other resources, with an emphasis on peer-to-peer information sharing. These examples will represent the diverse challenges that utilities, regional entities, and community leaders face in managing their response to past and projections of future challenges, including resource (financial and technical) constraints, capacity and size, and steps taken to date in response to extreme or gradual change in potential impacts.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMPA41D1348F
- Keywords:
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- 6309 Decision making under uncertainty;
- POLICY SCIENCESDE: 6319 Institutions;
- POLICY SCIENCESDE: 6620 Science policy;
- PUBLIC ISSUES