What are Climate resilient water structures?
When discussing water infrastructure, the term "resilience" refers to infrastructure's ability to recover from climate shocks such as droughts, floods, and storms.
In order to protect resilient infrastructure from a variety of hazards, developers consider its place within natural, built, and human systems. Because traditional cost-benefit analyses have frequently been rigid in approach, resulting in suboptimal resilience and outcomes, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recommends flexible, adaptive approaches to infrastructure. An improved and more informed cost-benefit analysis would take into account not only the initial cost of an investment, but also the associated benefits of climate-resilient infrastructure and the costs of poor resilience.
Flood-Resilient Infrastructure
Traditional flood-control methods include drains, dams, levees, and roads, which restrict the movement of water.
Green alternatives, on the other hand, work with nature rather than against it. Rain gardens, bioswales, permeable pavements, restored ecosystems, urban trees, and floodplain protection all help to mitigate damage by absorbing water.
Drought may follow flooding in an extreme climate, and even a flood may fail to end a drought. A flash flood may rush downriver to the sea before it has a chance to recharge the groundwater. We can mitigate the effects of a sudden flood by diverting floodwater into ponds, reservoirs, or groundwater percolation areas, while also banking water to provide a reserve for dry times, by designing infrastructure to capture stormwater.
Resilience through Decentralization
Despite the fact that large water and wastewater treatment plants are typically built to anticipate local climatic challenges, storms can humble even the most robust infrastructure.
Communities may want to consider decentralizing their water and wastewater treatment facilities to avoid the risk of a whole-system outage. Decentralization entails locating well-scaled infrastructure at points of need so that a single outage does not affect an entire region.
Decentralization eliminates the need for long, expensive pipelines that are vulnerable to storm damage and take a long time to repair. For these reasons, a region that is served by a series of independent plants rather than one large plant is more resilient to extreme weather events.
Infrastructure that is Drought-Resistant
Water storage, which makes use of infrastructure such as dams, reservoirs, ponds, and aquifer-recharge processes, is advantageous. However, with decreasing rainfall and increased evaporation, even the largest reservoirs may be depleted, forcing communities to seek alternative water sources.
Water reuse is one solution. Wastewater, municipal sewage, and stormwater can all be treated and reused to supplement the water supply. Desalination of water near coastlines and brackish or saline aquifers can also increase fresh water supply. Although the cost of energy has frequently been a barrier to desalination, energy requirements have dropped dramatically in recent years.
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