Climate Change
Climate change is altering the world’s water resources, as evidenced through changing precipitation patterns, severe drought and floods, snowpack amount, elevation, streamflow, and rising sea levels. It is critical that local utilities responsibly manage water resources in all local communities in order to minimize the effects of climate change.
What's New?
Cities of the Future 2010 (March 7-10, Boston, Massachusetts) will bring together a diverse group of practitioners, researchers and policy-makers who share a vision of an improved urban landscape for future generations. The conference will host interdisciplinary discussion required to create sustainable urban infrastructure that will meet the challenges of the 21st century and the interdependent engineered and natural systems that will characterize Cities of the Future.
Urban River Restoration 2010 (March 7-10, Boston, Massachusetts) will focus on the role of revitalized urban rivers and waterfronts within the context of two major trends: an increased focus on sustainable practices to benefit the environment, and a population shift back to cities, which leads to a renewed emphasis on a livable urban environment.
- In January, the US EPA convened the First National Expert and Stakeholder Workshop on Water Infrastructure Sustainability and Adaptation to Climate Change. Presentations from this workshop are now available. Read WEF’s blog about the workshop.
- January 2009 inter-agency report on Climate Change and Water Resources Management: A Federal Perspective
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