Water System Resilience (ARCC-Water)

可靠的供水对人类健康和福祉至关重要，在英国，饮用水和废水的抽取、储存、处理和输送等相互关联的基础设施是其基础。气候变化有可能以多种方式影响英国的供水系统：通过可用于抽取和储存的水的变化，特别是通过干旱频率和强度的改变，该项目旨在开发一套关于气候变化和未来需求的分析工具和数据，使用户能够确定一揽子备选方案，提高英国供水系统对这些不确定的未来驱动因素的应对能力。将制定的多标准方法还将允许对照其他标准，如环境可持续性、能源成本和公众可接受性，评估替代性适应备选方案，研究的重点是英格兰南部和东部，这一地区已经经历了水系统压力，由于气候变化和人口结构的变化，未来可能会受到额外的压力。这项研究的方法和结果将使英国该项目是与政府（DEFRA、EA、OFWAT、GLA）、水务行业（UKWIR、Water UK和一些水务公司）和对水感兴趣的非政府组织的利益相关者合作设计的。这些利益相关者将作为项目合作伙伴参与整个项目。

Reliable water supply is fundamental to human health and wellbeing, and in the UK is underpinned by inter-linked infrastructure for abstraction, storage, treatment and conveyance of potable and wastewater. Climate change has the potential to affect the UK water system in a number of ways: through changes in the water available for abstraction and storage, especially through altered drought frequency and intensity, changes in demand and changing risk of infrastructure failure.This project aims to develop a set of analysis tools and data on climate change and future demand that will enable users to identify packages of options that results in heightened reslience of the UK water system to these uncertain future drivers. The multi-criteria approach to be developed will also allow alternative adaptation options to be assessed against other criteria, such as environmental sustatinability, energy costs and public acceptability.The focus of the study is South and East England, an area that is already experiencing water system stress, and likely to be subject to additional stresses in the future due to climate change and demographic changes.The methods and results of this research will enable the UK to better plan for adaptation of the water system to climate change, and will help identify the polciy and regulatory changes that would be needed for adaptation to take place.The project has been designed in collaboration with stakeholders from government (DEFRA, EA, OFWAT, GLA), the water industry (UKWIR, Water UK and a number of water companies) and NGOs with an interest in water. These same stakeholders will be involved throughout the project as project partners.