Water Security
Climate Ready Water Utilities Toolbox
The CRWU Toolbox provides access to resources containing climate-related information relevant to the water sector. The Toolbox contains highlighted resources below organized into categories to help guide the user to the most relevant information. Hundreds of additional resources in the Toolbox can be searched by geographic region, water utility type and size, water resources, climate change impact, and climate change response strategies. These resources will be updated frequently to provide the most current water sector climate change information.
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The CRWU Toolbox provides access to resources containing climate-related information relevant to the water sector. These resources include several categories of information and can be searched by geographic region, water utility type and size, water resources, climate change impact, and climate change response strategies. These resources will be updated frequently to provide the most current water sector climate change information.
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This Search interface provides the ability to select information categories, utility characteristics, water and climate topics, and climate response strategies. Actions to respond to climate change can be selected as part of any overall strategies being pursued: mitigation and/or adaptation. These strategies are defined as follows:
- Mitigation: Take actions to reduce the carbon footprint of your utility, including plans to directly address emissions of greenhouse gasses from operations (e.g., on-site electrical generation from recovered sludge digest emissions), reduce community water footprint, or alter practices to account for carbon budget beyond emission reductions (e.g., carbon offsets on property through land use planning).
- Adaptation: Take actions to incorporate changes in operations that can account for changing conditions associated with climate change (e.g., emergency response plans that account for conditions not previously experienced in your region of the country), extend capacity of facilities to account for changing conditions associated with climate change (e.g., deploy green infrastructure in catchment to reduce peak storm water loading), or develop resources anticipated as necessary to account for changing conditions associated with climate change (e.g., build a new reservoir or consider new water sources).
A selection need to be made under each heading for the Toolbox to function. Click the "Select-Deselect All" button to either select all items or clear selections under a heading. Resources that apply across utility types, sizes, or regions can be found by selecting the "Not Type-Size-Region Specific" option under the appropriate heading.
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This list contains resources in the Toolbox that meet your current search selections. When reviewing the list, click on any name to see details pertaining to that resource in a separate window. The buttons above the list provide additional functions:
- Return to Search: returns you to the Toolbox Search interface.
- Show Search Summary: displays a text summary of current search selections above the list.
- Show Printer Friendly: generates a table for printing or exporting search results. To export, simply copy and paste cells into another program.
- Sort List: sorts results by category, name, author, and date added in either ascending or descending order.
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The table below provides the order in which the columns in the search results are sorted, the top most column being the first column sorted. Please note that this table does not provide the order in which the columns are displayed in the search results. By default, the search results are sorted by category, then name, then organization/source. Use this table to change sorting precedence and direction (ascending/descending) for the results. To change the sorting precedence, click on the up-arrow for a column to give it a higher sorting precedence. To change the direction in which results are displayed within a particular column, select either "ascending" or "descending" from the drop-down for that particular column. Click the [Apply to List] button to sort the search results according to your selections.