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Climate Adaptation Planning Builds Water Utility Resilience
Author(s) -
Dubin Laura
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.5991/opf.2015.41.0015
Subject(s) - adaptation (eye) , resilience (materials science) , stormwater , climate change , extreme weather , environmental planning , environmental resource management , agency (philosophy) , environmental science , climate change adaptation , business , surface runoff , ecology , physics , thermodynamics , philosophy , epistemology , biology , optics
Climate change and extreme weather events can pose significant challenges for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities. The US Environmental Protection Agency has developed an array of customizable software tools for understanding and assessing threats related to climate change to help utilities prepare for and be more resilient to such challenges.