Reducing Civil Works Vulnerability

The USACE is responsible for water resources infrastructure that is impacted by a variety of global changes. These global changes include demographic shifts, changing land use/land cover, climate change, and changing social values and economic conditions.

All of these changes can combine in unpredictable ways to result in potentially surprising or abrupt changes that can pose a threat to public health and safety, the Nation's water resources infrastructure, and natural ecosystems. Project operations must adapt to changing conditions in a sustainable manner that emphasizes life safety and the Federal investment in water resources infrastructure to meet the Nation's needs, now and in the future.

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