Climate Change Featured in Advances in Water Research

The Water Research Foundation’s (WRF’s) quarterly magazine often highlights climate change research. Be sure to check out the latest climate-related articles!

• A Vulnerability Assessment Case Study: This article features the case study of a utility that quantitatively and qualitatively assessed the extent to which climate change will be a threat to the water system in comparison to, or in combination with, other drivers of change.
• Assessing Climate-Related Risks Across Business Functions: This article focuses on a WRF project that included the design and testing of a replicable Water Utility Business Function Climate Risk and Opportunity Framework.
• CLASIC Advances Stormwater Management: This article highlights the Community-enabled Lifecycle Analysis of Stormwater Infrastructure Costs (CLASIC) tool, which utilizes a lifecycle cost framework to support feasibility assessment and planning for stormwater infrastructure, and enables simulation of various climate scenarios.
• Climate Change: As part of the 2020 Year in Review issue of the magazine, this article summarizes WRF climate change research that was completed in 2020.
• Climate Change and Holistic Nutrient Management: This article features a WRF project that sought to improve nutrient management by using a holistic watershed approach to address both urban and agricultural issues, including considering the impacts of climate change on nutrient management.
• Resources for Small Systems: This article summarizes WRF resources for small systems, including the results of a climate change workshop series.

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