Resiliency Resources
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Army Corps Protects Plant That Helps Protect Shore
5/1/2024
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.
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Enhancing Water Infrastructure Resilience Against Seismic Activity
4/17/2024
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.
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Combating Cyber Threats: How To Secure Water Utility Systems
4/17/2024
As technology gets more sophisticated, so have hackers and cyberattacks. How can utilities protect themselves and their customers?
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The South's Aging Water Infrastructure Is Getting Pounded By Climate Change — Fixing It Is Also A Struggle
4/12/2024
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.
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Coastal Wetlands Can't Keep Pace With Sea-Level Rise, And Infrastructure Is Leaving Them Nowhere To Go
4/9/2024
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.
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Cybersecurity Toolkit For Water Utilities To Adopt CISA, FBI, And EPA Guidance
4/7/2024
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.
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Solutions In Bloom: How Flowers Are Being Used To Clean Up Polluted Waterways
3/21/2024
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.
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How Energy Choices Influence Water Quality
3/18/2024
Using earth-friendly energy and conserving water supports the fight against climate change and preserves our freshwater reserves.
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Testing The (Storm)Waters
3/7/2024
Heavy rains in California prove the worthiness of the "sponge city" concept.
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Reducing Flood Risk In A Highly Urbanized Area
3/7/2024
How the city of Aurora, CO, via the Fitzsimmons-Peoria Stormwater Outfall Project, modernized outdated infrastructure in response to current needs and future threats.