Publications
The Water Utility Climate Alliance recognizes that without applicable data from climate change research, truly effective water resource planning will be extremely challenging in the future.
WUCA aims to enhance the quality and accessibility of regional climate change data to help reduce uncertainty and improve water resource planning, promote the development of adaptation strategies, assist overall decision-making efforts and support the development of water-related policies.
The following publications support this objective.
Water Utility Climate Alliance publications
The following publications seek to advance understanding of how the relatively new enterprise of climate change assessment and adaptation is developing. They also provide feedback from the front lines of climate change planning to guide future investment in this rapidly growing field of inquiry.
- Actionable Science in Practice: Co-Producing Climate Change Information for Water Utility Vulnerability Assessments: Final Report of the Piloting Utility Modeling Applications (PUMA) Project (2015)
- Embracing Uncertainty: A Case Study Examination of How Climate Change is Shifting Water Utility Planning (2015)
- Decision support planning methods: Incorporating climate change uncertainties into water planning (2010)
- Proceedings of the Water Utility Climate Alliance Piloting Utility Modeling Applications (PUMA) Workshop (2010)
- Options for improving climate modeling to assist water utility planning for climate change (2009)
Select publications produced in collaboration with WUCA or including contributions from WUCA members
- Co-Producing Actionable Science for Water Utilities (2016)
- Colorado River Basin Stakeholders Moving Forward to Address Challenges Identified in the Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study (2015)
- Linking Environmental Research and Practice: Lessons from the Integration of Climate Science and Water Management in the Western United States (2014)
- Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool 2.0 Exercise with Southern Nevada Water Authority (2014)
- Changes in Water Use Under Regional Climate Change Scenarios (2013)
- Summary report of the Climate Change for Effective Resource Management and Public Policy in the Western United States workshop (2013)
- Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study (2012)
- Joint Front Range Climate Change Vulnerability Study (2012)
- Articles on nonstationarity published in Colorado Water: Newsletter of the Water Center of Colorado State University (2010)
- Climate Change in Colorado (2008)
Central Arizona Project
Denver Water
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
New York Department of Environmental Protection
- Climate Change Integrated Modeling Project (2013)
- Investigating the impact of climate on New York City's primary water supply (2012)
San Diego County Water Authority
Seattle Public Utilities
Southern Nevada Water Authority
- Water Resource Plan (2015)
- Climate Change Modeling of Lake Mead: Extrapolating Model Results to Biological Change (2014)
- Modeling Impacts of Climate Change on Lake Mead (2013)
- Modeling Water Quality in Lake Mead: Climate Change, Algal Succession, and Operational Effects (2013)
Tampa Bay Water
- A Level-of-Service Concept for Planning Future Water Supply Projects under Probabilistic Demand and Supply Framework (2015)
- Innovative Systems-Based Decision Support: Tales for the Real World (2015)
- Recommended Projection of Sea Level Rise in the Tampa Bay Region (2015)
- Reducing bias-corrected precipitation projection uncertainties: a Bayesian-based indicator-weighting approach (2013)
- Tampa Bay Water climate variability and projections on regional water supplies project technical report (2013)