Are Wastewater Systems Adapting to Climate Change?
Are Wastewater Systems Adapting to Climate Change?
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废水系统是否适应气候变化？
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Peter L. Watson
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作者：
C. Kirchhoff;Peter L. Watson
废水系统容易受到极端降水事件的影响；风暴导致的废水系统故障会污染环境并危及公众健康。尽管存在这些漏洞，但我们对WW经理如何应对当前的气候风险或未来的气候变化知之甚少。这项研究旨在填补文献中的这一关键空白。调查和采访的数据被用来了解全球经理人正在做什么来适应当前的气候，是什么促进了这些适应，以及他们是否正在适应未来的气候变化。调查结果显示，大多数全球经理(78%)正在做出改变，以建立对过去经历的风暴的适应能力(例如，现场额外的燃料、额外的随叫随到人员、更多的培训、更好的沟通、增加发电机、提升部件、增加容量)；大多数人没有适应未来的气候变化。我们的工作表明，组织领导力、对未来气候相关影响的担忧以及经历风暴影响推动了弹性变化，而监管要求推动了对未来气候变化的适应。除了推动科学进步，我们的工作还为构建WW系统的复原力以及在WW系统的复原力建设工作中增加对未来气候影响的考虑提供了实用建议。
Wastewater (WW) systems are vulnerable to extreme precipitation events; storm‐induced WW system failures pollute the environment and put public health at risk. Despite these vulnerabilities, we know very little about how WW managers are responding to current climate risks or to future climate change. This study aims to fill this critical gap in the literature. Data from surveys and interviews were used to understand what WW managers are doing to adapt to the current climate, what facilitates those adaptations, and if they are adapting to future climate change. Findings show most WW managers (78%) are making changes to build resiliency to storms they have experienced in the past (e.g., extra fuel on site, extra staff on call, more training, better communication, adding generators, elevating components, adding capacity); most are not adapting to future climate change. Our work suggests organizational leadership, concern about future climate‐related impacts, and experiencing storm impacts drive resiliency changes while regulatory requirements drive adaptation to future climate change. Beyond advancing science, our work offers practical suggestions for building WW system resilience and for increasing WW system's consideration of future climate impacts in their resiliency building efforts.
DOI：
10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001352
发表时间：
2017-08-01
影响因子：
5.1
作者：
Faust, Kasey M.;Kaminsky, Jessica A.
通讯作者：
Kaminsky, Jessica A.