AGWA is leading a project to develop national adaptation policy guidelines for river/water management in Mexico using Eco-Engineering Decision Scaling (EEDS). The project is designed to analyze the effects of climate change on e-flows as they relate to the CONAGUA-WWF water reserves program in Mexico.

About 10 years ago, CONAGUA and WWF developed the water reserves program as a mechanism to help communities and ecosystem adjust to climate impacts together. Based on an environmental flows (eflows) framework, the water reserves allocate part of the water to maintain the ecosystem itself and to provide ongoing adaptation services, including disaster risk reduction. This project is intended to quantify and document how the water reserves ensure that farmers can keep producing food, cities can continue to provide water, and ecosystems can continue to nourish water. Through the EEDS process, AGWA and its partners will assess the role of water reserves in assisting natural and human systems as they adapt to climate change and to understand the role of water reserves as an adaptation tool for CONAGUA.

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Observations confirm that disasters being triggered by hydro-meteorological events, interconnected and interrelated with both human activities and natural processes, are increasing the need for holistic approaches to help us understand their complexity in order to design and develop adaptive risk management approaches that minimise social and economic losses and environmental impacts and increase resilience to such events.

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There is uncertainty on the sustainability of multipurpose water reservoir management in the Huasco basin under climate change scenarios, requiring a stress test for the currently installed water allocation rules to the different sectors.

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How should the end of a pump's lifetime be handled in the case of the pumping station Ijmuiden? Alternatives for replacement need to be explored and tested.

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MCC funded infrastructure investments require robustness for a range of uncertain futures in difficult developing environments in order to achieve intended poverty reduction objectives. This case study demonstrates the application of Collaborative Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) at Zambia’s principal water treatment facility, The Iolanda Water Treatment Plant.

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The risks to delivery of WASH results posed by climate change in Africa, drawing on three country case studies and respective DFID portfolio assessments.

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A better understanding of household water use in developing countries is necessary to manage and expand water systems more effectively while analysis of pricing structure and income elasticities are crucial to devise relevant policies of subsidizing improved water supply, particularly in urban areas of developing economies.

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This project aims at integrating information from climate change projections, provided from a top-down modelling chain, with demand development scenarios and adaptation measures, obtain through a bottom-up approach, to define water management strategies to adapt to global change at the river basin scale.

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Ecosystem services need to be linked more directly and clearly into water infrastructure development, for climate change adaptation and integration into water, food and energy security.

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The decision problem is whether to adopt a resilient strategy or a resistant strategy for the management of flood risk on the Island of Dordrecht.

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As a consequence of climate change more extreme river floods are expected. This requires an increase of the river discharge capacity. This project seeks to find synergy between space for future extreme river discharge and present needs for urban development.

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The 2005 earthquake in Pakistan destroyed water supply systems in Kashmir and KPK in addition to altering the water level due to topographical changes, causing a shortage of drinking water supply in the area.

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Increasing floods and droughts due to climate change is driving a need for better planning and management of water resources at basin and local level. There is a growing sense of urgency around the need to improve resilience within river basins, and for this to become a critical part of water management plans.

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The translation of climate change projections into corresponding changes in runoff and streamflow through hydrological modeling are usually accompanied by additional uncertainties caused both by specific weaknesses encountered in hydrological models, and different external factors that cannot always be eliminated during models testing. Among such factors, the anthropogenic ones prevail. As a result, the modeling water yield from a watershed should be considered as a certain hypothetic runoff that reflects reality only for the “pristine environment”.

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To manage tradeoffs between food, energy and water security with the primary goal of sustainable economic development in the Siphandone-Stung Treng-Kratie Landscape of the Mekong Basin.

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This project was designed to build the resilience of networked water supply and sanitation infrastructure to future climate change impacts in the large metropolitan area of Manila in the Philippines.

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How can coastal municipalities plan for protecting and exploiting low lying areas close to the sea given different outcomes of future sea level rise?

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The purpose of this study is to apply the CRIDA approach to a water supply case study in Central Cebu, the Philippines in order to evaluate the added benefits of the method for planning and design under climate change uncertainty. This work will equip practitioners and decision makers with an example of a structured process for decision making under climate uncertainty that can be scaled as needed to the problem at hand.

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