Think globally: Replace disaster response with risk manaqement

摘要

Climate change has a direct effect on the world's water resources. One country can experience excessive rainfall-leading to floods-in one region and a lack of water-resulting in water scarcity-in another. This results in a universal challenge for water planners and providers. Increasing demand for water, arising from rapid urban population growth, is coupled with unreliability of water supply from extreme weather changes. The main challenge now lies with city planners and water and stormwater utility leaders. Given the increasing demand for water, uncertainties in water supply, and escalating risk to their infrastructure, water supply portfolios need to be reevaluated. Pressing issues, such as threats of coastal floods and fast-rising sea levels overtaking low-lying coastal areas, also demand urgent attention from urban planners to rethink flood protection strategies.