RESILIENCY RESOURCES

• Unlocking The Potential Of Corporate Funding To Address Water Challenges In Our Communities — Part 3: Promoting Scalable Impact And Innovation

  The final segment in Brown and Caldwell's series on corporate water stewardship (CWS) discusses how the public sector can get more involved in CWS and presents opportunities for win-win partnerships that drive strategic innovation.
• Unlocking The Potential Of Corporate Funding To Address Water Challenges — Part 2: Defining Metrics To Prioritize Water Projects

  The second installment of Brown and Caldwell's three-part series on corporate water stewardship (CWS) dives into the CWS program metrics used by companies when prioritizing investments in water projects, and how utilities can leverage private sector funds.

• Unlocking The Potential Of Corporate Funding To Address Water Challenges — Part 1: Understanding Corporate Water Stewardship

  This three-part series explores how corporations are voluntarily investing in projects that address water risk while demonstrating responsible leadership. Funding from corporate water stewardship (CWS) programs earmarked to address local water challenges has the potential to catalyze innovation in water management. Hence, CWS has important implications for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), utilities, and municipalities who can leverage these funds to drive meaningful positive impacts for the benefit of communities and our environment.

• How Microgrids Can Reduce The Energy Pressures On Water Infrastructure

  With the ability to isolate from the primary grid, maximize the full potential of onsite distributed energy resources (DERs), and intelligently manage onsite energy loads, microgrids have emerged as an ideal solution to help water departments modernize operations for the energy demands of today and tomorrow.
• How The Private Sector Can Help Protect U.S. Wetlands

  Today, the U.S. is losing wetlands, mainly to development and agriculture, at an accelerating rate. With Congress polarized and gridlocked, new federal wetland protection laws are unlikely to be enacted in the next several years.

• 6 Ways Communities Are Streamlining Water & Wastewater Asset Lifecycle Management

  Here are just a few examples of innovative ways that communities are leveraging Trimble Cityworks, Esri, and partner solutions.

• Community-Led Initiative Aims To Enhance Equity In Grand Rapids Watershed Resilience

  Resilience can have many meanings, but for the communities facing increasing impacts of climate change, resilience is a way of planning for a safer and more prosperous future. The Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds (LGROW) has been an Urban Waters Federal Partnership (UWFP) location since 2011. As part of UWFP, LGROW works in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to understand, protect, and improve the natural resources of the Lower Grand River watershed for all to enjoy.

• As Climate Change Amplifies Urban Flooding, Here's How Communities Can Become 'Sponge Cities'

  Across the continental U.S., intense single-day precipitation events are growing more frequent, fueled by warming air that can hold increasing levels of moisture. Most recently, areas north of Houston received 12–20" of rain in several days in early May 2024, leading to swamped roads and evacuations. Events like these have sparked interest in so-called sponge cities — a comprehensive approach to urban flood mitigation that uses innovative landscape and drainage designs to reduce and slow down runoff, while allowing certain parts of the city to flood safely during extreme weather.
• How To Protect Against Cyber Attacks That Threaten Critical Infrastructure

  Learn more about five types of attacks that threaten critical infrastructure assets, services, and systems, and how to defend against each.

• 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.