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The Climate Resilience Toolkit and the
Water Utility and Planning Communities:
Experiences of Successful Partnering
Nancy Beller-Simms, Ph.D.Program Manager, NOAA CPO,
Sectoral Applications Research Program
Webinar SeriesApril 13, 2015
This talk is based on experiences with buildingthe water sector of the Climate Resilience Toolkit
Some Background:
• Climate Resilience Toolkit – Water Sector
• Extreme Events Study
• Extreme Precipitation Dashboard
First Thoughts on Developing Partners
Partnerships are serendipity; they depend upon: showing up, listening, observing, challenging, and caring.
They are cultivated – not developed over night.
For large scale activities (e.g., this toolkit) – scale, geography, draw and influence matter.
Personal relationships also matter.
Current Partners for the “Dashboard”
• American Planning Association (APA): James
Schwab
• American Water Works Association (AWWA): Adam Carpenter
• Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA): Erica Brown
• Water Environment Federation (WEF): Claudio Ternieden
• Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF): Katy Lackey
• Water Research Foundation (WRF): Kenan Ozekin
Good Partnerships
• evolve with: substance, people, and goals.
• result from acceptance of differing views as everyone interprets the world differently
General Approach: • Meet regularly.• Agree upon goals.• Re-evaluate goals.
Specific Approach:• Better understand population.• Develop survey.• Identify most relevant constituents (avoided member fatigue) for inclusion in survey.
Developing the Extreme Events Dashboard
The Survey***
*** With special thanks to Katy Lackey for compiling and illustrating the statistics.
Survey Statistics and Participants
Online for 2 weeks, 11 multi-layered questions Sent to 745 people
66 responses 10 thrown out = 56 TOTAL 34 completed ALL questions
Institution Date Sent Target Group # of Participants
AMWA 16-Oct Sustainability Committee 56
APA 16-OctHazard Mitigation & Disaster Recovery Interest Group
250
AWWA 20-Oct Climate Change Committee 150
WERF 15-Oct Climate Change Listserv 264
WRF (WaterRF) 15-Oct Selected group w/CC interest 25
TOTAL 745
Slides liberally “borrowed” from: Katy Lackey, Water Environmental Research Foundations
Academic Institution Federal agency
State governmentWatershed/river commission
Planning agencyStormwater manager
OtherWastewater collection
Local governmentWater supply/distribution
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
What institutions were participants from?
Percent belonging to institution
Use of Climate InformationFrequent (50%+)1.Understanding risk for water supply 2. Infrastructure/capital investments 3.Operational purposes
Frequent/Occasional (50%+)4. Prepare hazard mitigation/climate adaptation 5. Develop impact reports & risk assessments 6. Plan extreme events 7. Plan explicit forecast 8. Plan emergency/long-term response9. Other purposes
Don’t Use/May in Future (50%+) 10.Rebuilding following an extreme event
Sources, Scales, Types and Forms
NOAA
Loca
l gau
ge/m
odel
s
Third
par
ty
Loca
l TV/
radi
o
USGS
Other N/A
0%20%40%60%80%
84%
58% 53% 49% 49%
27%
4%
Where do you obtain climate/weather data?
Source of informa-tion
NWS, NCDC, NOAA
Northwest RISA
Universities, local
emergency manageme
nt, blogs
Using the survey results, we brought scientists and representatives from the foundations together to discuss what would be practical in a dashboard.
We are currently developing the dashboard.
We anticipate that it will include data sets for:• climate stressors (e.g., monthly normals & extremes); • people and assets (e.g., soil moisture index, vulnerability index) • forecasts (e.g., 6-10 day precip and temp).
Next Steps
• Dashboard
• Climate Resilience Toolkit
• Educational Activities (combining with new partners)
• Teacher inclusion in CRT case studies
Successful Partnerships 1. are serendipity; they depend upon:
showing up, listening, observing, challenging, and caring.
2. evolve with: substance, people, and goals.
3. result from acceptance of differing views as everyone interprets the world differently
4. combine viewpoints which often result in practical, cutting edge, and innovative solutions
Next Steps: Barriers & Tools
Lack of training/education is primary barrier (50%)
1. Managing/processing data2. Understanding/interpretation non-climate
professional3. Modeling skills4. Downsizing forecasts to local scale
*Other barriers: access, local skepticism
Use of Climate Info 71% currently use for planning purposes Of the 29% that do not:
38% plan to use in the future 44% might use in the future
Reasons for Not Using Climate Info
Institutional support/capacity
Uncertainty in CC/impacts
Other
Next Steps: Barriers and Tools
63% say data needs will change in future:
Needed formats vary data maps, GeoTiff, KML among most popular
Changing Needs
Refine & update
Access
Short-term needs
Long-term needs
Not sure
Next Steps: Barriers & Tools
Future products or tools: Adjustments / updates to existing tools Precipitation data to assist design All data in one place Economic impact indicator Timeframe assessment for climate change No new tools, just better access
Sources, Scales, Types and Forms
Time Scales
Level of Need
Most critical Helpful
Not critical at present
Foresee critical in
future
Planning Purpose(most common identified)
Minutes to hours 37% 17% 39% 7% Immediate response (54%)Hours to a day 37% 34% 24% 5% Short-term (39%)A day to several days 33% 50% 10% 8% Short-term (49%)Days to weeks 20% 61% 15% 5% Medium (39%)Weeks to months 15% 66% 15% 5% Medium (56%)Months to years (seasonal) 24% 60% 12% 5% Long-term (55%)Years to decades 18% 58% 18% 8% Long-term (84%)Decades to centuries 3% 45% 50% 3% Long-term (64%)
