RESILIENCY RESOURCES

• What Cities Everywhere Can Learn From The Houston Area's Severe Flooding As They Try To Adapt To Climate Change

  Floods are complex events, and they are about more than just heavy rain. Each community has its own unique geography and climate that can exacerbate flooding. On top of those risks, extreme downpours are becoming more common as global temperatures rise.

• Army Corps Protects Plant That Helps Protect Shore

  An eroded coast puts the shoreline community at risk for flooding from storms, so the Army Corps has been replenishing the eroded sand and increasing the size of the beach to help protect the community. This has been done in part thanks to the discovery of a federally threatened coastal plant that hadn’t been seen in the region for almost a century.

• Enhancing Water Infrastructure Resilience Against Seismic Activity

  Water and wastewater infrastructure is the backbone of communities, ensuring access to clean water and the safe treatment of waste critical for public health and environmental sustainability. However, seismic activity presents a formidable challenge to these systems. It risks widespread disruption, contamination, and service outages that can have immediate and long-term effects on a community's well-being and capabilities.
• Combating Cyber Threats: How To Secure Water Utility Systems

  As technology gets more sophisticated, so have hackers and cyberattacks. How can utilities protect themselves and their customers?

• The South's Aging Water Infrastructure Is Getting Pounded By Climate Change — Fixing It Is Also A Struggle

  Climate change is threatening America's water infrastructure as intensifying storms deluge communities and droughts dry up freshwater supplies in regions that aren't prepared. We study infrastructure resilience and sustainability and see a crisis growing where aging water supply systems and stormwater infrastructure are leaving more communities at risk as weather becomes more extreme.
• Coastal Wetlands Can't Keep Pace With Sea-Level Rise, And Infrastructure Is Leaving Them Nowhere To Go

  Wetlands have flourished along the world's coastlines for thousands of years, playing valuable roles in the lives of people and wildlife. They protect the land from storm surge, stop seawater from contaminating drinking water supplies, and create habitat for birds, fish, and threatened species. Much of that may be gone in a matter of decades.
• Cybersecurity Toolkit For Water Utilities To Adopt CISA, FBI, And EPA Guidance

  Utilities can shore up their defenses against cyberattacks with effective internal employee policies and procedures, but it can be harder to accomplish if your workforce relies on older or outdated software and devices without access to the latest firmware updates.

• Solutions In Bloom: How Flowers Are Being Used To Clean Up Polluted Waterways

  Pollution and microplastics float down waterways that treatment plants have to manage. Alongside these contaminants are drifting flowers that clear aquatic habitats. Recent research shows they could be an organic method for removing phosphorus and nitrogen.

• How Energy Choices Influence Water Quality

  Using earth-friendly energy and conserving water supports the fight against climate change and preserves our freshwater reserves.

• Testing The (Storm)Waters

  Heavy rains in California prove the worthiness of the "sponge city" concept.