Creating Resilient Water Utilities (CRWU)
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Explore CRWU’s New Environmental Justice StoryMap
Learn how environmental justice and water equity relate to water utility climate adaptation through this NEW resource! The Environmental Justice StoryMap’s information, resources, case studies, and data dashboard can help your utility incorporate environmental justice priorities into climate adaptation planning.
(Image credit: Tanya Hollifield, 2021)
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Winter is Coming.
Check out CRWU’s Snowpack Map to see how the amount of snowpack and timing of snowmelt is projected to change in your watershed, and how utilities in the Western U.S. have begun planning for and adapting to changes in future snowpack conditions.
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CRWU Climate Resilience in Action
A New Jersey utility, Trenton Water Works, developed a Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT) assessment to obtain technical assistance and funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to implement adaptation infrastructure. View Trenton’s and other utility stories.
EPA’s CRWU initiative provides drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater (water sector) utilities with practical tools, training, and technical assistance to increase system resilience to climate change impacts. CRWU helps promote a clear understanding of climate data and helps water sector utilities identify potential adaptation strategies, implementation options, and infrastructure financing.
Risk Assessment Tools
- Resilient Strategies Guide: For those in the early stages of understanding potential climate change risks, typically smaller water sector utilities.
- Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool: For those that want to take a comprehensive approach to water sector utility climate change risk assessment.
Connect With Us:
- Sign up: CRWU News
- Email us: crwuhelp@epa.gov
Highlights
- Adaptation Planning in Action: Utility Videos
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Videos: