This document discusses various issues related to water security and challenges facing the US and world regarding water. It covers topics like drought, water quality problems, flood damage, coastal risks from climate change, aging infrastructure, and the water-energy nexus. It notes the lack of a unified national water vision/policy in the US. Globally, it discusses transboundary water conflicts and the large number of people without access to safe water. The document argues more holistic and cooperative approaches are needed to address complex water issues.
The extensive interview with Dr. Gupta contains references, analysis and insight into the “challenges of the commons” faced globally, including:
• Energy and water resources and their implications for development and foreign affairs;
• Climate change, carbon emissions equations and the response of nature;
• Discussions about natural gas and nuclear energy and waste;
• And, the geopolitics and economics surrounding the energy- water nexus, with references to China and India.
America’s national security leaders agree that climate change is a threat to national security, because it will affect global stability and humanitarian crises around the world. However, American policymakers often overlook that the U.S. should lead in climate change adaptation and mitigation because the U.S. homeland is directly threatened by climate change as well.
Climate change will harm America’s infrastructure, agriculture, economy and population; these directly affect America’s homeland and the security of its citizens.
Our country is large and the consequences of warming will vary dramatically across regions and sectors.
Despite the variations in its effects, we must understand its impact on homeland security.
The extensive interview with Dr. Gupta contains references, analysis and insight into the “challenges of the commons” faced globally, including:
• Energy and water resources and their implications for development and foreign affairs;
• Climate change, carbon emissions equations and the response of nature;
• Discussions about natural gas and nuclear energy and waste;
• And, the geopolitics and economics surrounding the energy- water nexus, with references to China and India.
America’s national security leaders agree that climate change is a threat to national security, because it will affect global stability and humanitarian crises around the world. However, American policymakers often overlook that the U.S. should lead in climate change adaptation and mitigation because the U.S. homeland is directly threatened by climate change as well.
Climate change will harm America’s infrastructure, agriculture, economy and population; these directly affect America’s homeland and the security of its citizens.
Our country is large and the consequences of warming will vary dramatically across regions and sectors.
Despite the variations in its effects, we must understand its impact on homeland security.
CRCTI CoP/CCRF Webinar: Changes in the Oceans Surrounding Canada (June 26, 2019)glennmcgillivray
On June 26, 2019, the Climate Risks for Coastal Transportation Infrastructure Community of Practice (CRCTI CoP) and the Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum (CCRF) conducted a webinar titled “Canada’s Changing Climate Report: Changes in the Oceans Surrounding Canada” presented by Blair Greenan, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Thomas James, Natural Resources Canada
This webinar summarized the observed and projected changes for the oceans surrounding Canada that are being driven by anthropogenic climate change. The results were drawn from the recent “Canada’s Changing Climate Report”. The presentation focused on changes in sea level and coastal flooding impacting coastal communities and infrastructure. The presentation also included some results from the 2016 report on “Canada’s Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate”, a contribution to the ongoing series of reports for the National Assessment Canada in a Changing Climate.
Blair Greenan is a research scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and is based at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax. He manages a diverse group of researchers that focus on ocean stressors ranging from marine oil spills to climate change effects such as ocean acidification. He is the Scientific Director for the Argo Canada program which contributes to the International Argo program in advancing global real-time observations of the ocean with autonomous instruments. Recently, Blair’s research has focused on developing climate change adaptation tools to provide science advice to DFO on issues related to coastal infrastructure and fisheries management. Blair received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto.
Thomas James is a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Natural Resources Canada. His undergraduate studies were at Queen’s University and he carried out his Ph.D. research at Princeton University, finishing in 1991. Tom’s research interests are in geodynamics, and specifically in understanding the interactions between the solid Earth, ice sheets and glaciers, and the oceans. He has carried out field work in British Columbia, Nunavut, and Antarctica to measure land motion and sea-level change. Recently, Tom generated sea-level projections across Canada for a volume called “Canada’s Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate”, based on the most recent assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Presentation from a Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies public forum on climate change by Perry Sheffield, Professor of Pediatrics and Preventative Medicine, Mount Sinai
What can wine tell us about the future of life on Earth? Kim Nicholas
Studying wine, like other living systems, tells us that life on Earth is in big trouble from the joint threats of the climate and ecological crises. We already live in a world of dangerous climate change and must urgently stop burning fossil fuels and destroying nature.
Michael P Totten DENIN talk "Water in an Uncertain Climate Future" focusing o...Michael P Totten
The DENIN Dialogue Series is a semiannual lecture series sponsored by the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) that brings experts of international renown in environmental research and policy to address the public at UD's Newark campus. Totten's presentation will be podcast on DENIN's iTunes U site following the lecture.
Totten will address the topic “Water in an Uncertain Climate Future.” Billions of people around the world are mired in poverty, are chronically ill, and lack adequate drinking water and basic sanitation services. Efforts to ensure water security now also contend with the impacts of climate change and the uncertainty in water flow and availability.
Water use is pervasive throughout the global economy but concentrated in agriculture (about 75 percent of water withdrawals worldwide) and thermal power plants (48 percent of off-stream use in the U.S.). A core concern is how to
deliver water services for these needs at least cost and risk while addressing issues of social equity and ecological integrity.
Totten will present the case that there are win-win-win pathways in addressing these multiple crises, and he will highlight
some of the evidence and experience to date in using innovative practices, policies and regulations in delivering water and water-related services.
He has nearly three decades of professional experience in promoting ecologically sustainable economic development at the local, national and international levels. At Conservation International's CELB, he engages corporations and public institutions in adopting strategies to shrink and offset the ecological footprints of goods and services throughout their lifecycle. He has given more than 1,500 presentations and written scores of publications.
Totten is the principal co-author of the 2008 book, A Climate for Life: Meeting the Global Challenge, an interdisciplinary perspective on preventing catastrophic climate change and human-triggered species extinction while providing robust
economic growth. He received the Lewis Mumford Prize for Environment in 2000 for pioneering the creation of interactive multimedia and Internet tools for spurring ecologically sustainable development. As senior adviser to U.S. Rep. Claudine Schneider (R-R.I.), he drafted the 1989 Global Warming Prevention Act, cosponsored by one-third of the House of Representatives.
Now a days climate is rapidly changing. Its' effect on Bangladesh is described in this document. Mainly focused on the sea level rise of Bangladesh. Hope many will get idea about this.
Thanks to all.
A presentation regarding global warming and the impact on the Great Lakes ecosystem and economy. This was initially delivered at the press conference to announce the HOW Coalition's release of the Great Lakes Global Warming Report. Check out www.healthylakes.org for more detail.
This presentation is entitled as Climate change impact on Bangladesh. It includes the possible impact on Bangladesh in different sectors like agriculture, food security, coastal areas, industry, migration pattern etc. It also describes about the possible climate change scenarios of Bangladesh in different condition along with its impact.
Weather and climate have both short-term and long-term impacts on livestock development and management. This talk will focus on longer-term trends in climate and drought over time across the United States and the impacts of changes in these factors on animal agriculture. We will start by examining the trends in temperature and precipitation that have occurred over different regions of the US over the past century and how they have varied from one area to another. Then we will look at how future climate is predicted and problems in making useful predictions. We will follow that by looking at some of the most reliable predictions of future climate and discuss the potential impacts on livestock health, forage and feed supply, and farm management practices and the importance of resilience in farm practices. We will conclude by identifying both the challenges and the opportunities for future livestock producers in a changing climate.
http://www.extension.org/pages/67615/impacts-of-a-changing-cimate-on-animal-agriculture
CRCTI CoP/CCRF Webinar: Changes in the Oceans Surrounding Canada (June 26, 2019)glennmcgillivray
On June 26, 2019, the Climate Risks for Coastal Transportation Infrastructure Community of Practice (CRCTI CoP) and the Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum (CCRF) conducted a webinar titled “Canada’s Changing Climate Report: Changes in the Oceans Surrounding Canada” presented by Blair Greenan, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Thomas James, Natural Resources Canada
This webinar summarized the observed and projected changes for the oceans surrounding Canada that are being driven by anthropogenic climate change. The results were drawn from the recent “Canada’s Changing Climate Report”. The presentation focused on changes in sea level and coastal flooding impacting coastal communities and infrastructure. The presentation also included some results from the 2016 report on “Canada’s Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate”, a contribution to the ongoing series of reports for the National Assessment Canada in a Changing Climate.
Blair Greenan is a research scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and is based at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax. He manages a diverse group of researchers that focus on ocean stressors ranging from marine oil spills to climate change effects such as ocean acidification. He is the Scientific Director for the Argo Canada program which contributes to the International Argo program in advancing global real-time observations of the ocean with autonomous instruments. Recently, Blair’s research has focused on developing climate change adaptation tools to provide science advice to DFO on issues related to coastal infrastructure and fisheries management. Blair received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto.
Thomas James is a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Natural Resources Canada. His undergraduate studies were at Queen’s University and he carried out his Ph.D. research at Princeton University, finishing in 1991. Tom’s research interests are in geodynamics, and specifically in understanding the interactions between the solid Earth, ice sheets and glaciers, and the oceans. He has carried out field work in British Columbia, Nunavut, and Antarctica to measure land motion and sea-level change. Recently, Tom generated sea-level projections across Canada for a volume called “Canada’s Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate”, based on the most recent assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Presentation from a Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies public forum on climate change by Perry Sheffield, Professor of Pediatrics and Preventative Medicine, Mount Sinai
What can wine tell us about the future of life on Earth? Kim Nicholas
Studying wine, like other living systems, tells us that life on Earth is in big trouble from the joint threats of the climate and ecological crises. We already live in a world of dangerous climate change and must urgently stop burning fossil fuels and destroying nature.
Michael P Totten DENIN talk "Water in an Uncertain Climate Future" focusing o...Michael P Totten
The DENIN Dialogue Series is a semiannual lecture series sponsored by the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) that brings experts of international renown in environmental research and policy to address the public at UD's Newark campus. Totten's presentation will be podcast on DENIN's iTunes U site following the lecture.
Totten will address the topic “Water in an Uncertain Climate Future.” Billions of people around the world are mired in poverty, are chronically ill, and lack adequate drinking water and basic sanitation services. Efforts to ensure water security now also contend with the impacts of climate change and the uncertainty in water flow and availability.
Water use is pervasive throughout the global economy but concentrated in agriculture (about 75 percent of water withdrawals worldwide) and thermal power plants (48 percent of off-stream use in the U.S.). A core concern is how to
deliver water services for these needs at least cost and risk while addressing issues of social equity and ecological integrity.
Totten will present the case that there are win-win-win pathways in addressing these multiple crises, and he will highlight
some of the evidence and experience to date in using innovative practices, policies and regulations in delivering water and water-related services.
He has nearly three decades of professional experience in promoting ecologically sustainable economic development at the local, national and international levels. At Conservation International's CELB, he engages corporations and public institutions in adopting strategies to shrink and offset the ecological footprints of goods and services throughout their lifecycle. He has given more than 1,500 presentations and written scores of publications.
Totten is the principal co-author of the 2008 book, A Climate for Life: Meeting the Global Challenge, an interdisciplinary perspective on preventing catastrophic climate change and human-triggered species extinction while providing robust
economic growth. He received the Lewis Mumford Prize for Environment in 2000 for pioneering the creation of interactive multimedia and Internet tools for spurring ecologically sustainable development. As senior adviser to U.S. Rep. Claudine Schneider (R-R.I.), he drafted the 1989 Global Warming Prevention Act, cosponsored by one-third of the House of Representatives.
Now a days climate is rapidly changing. Its' effect on Bangladesh is described in this document. Mainly focused on the sea level rise of Bangladesh. Hope many will get idea about this.
Thanks to all.
A presentation regarding global warming and the impact on the Great Lakes ecosystem and economy. This was initially delivered at the press conference to announce the HOW Coalition's release of the Great Lakes Global Warming Report. Check out www.healthylakes.org for more detail.
This presentation is entitled as Climate change impact on Bangladesh. It includes the possible impact on Bangladesh in different sectors like agriculture, food security, coastal areas, industry, migration pattern etc. It also describes about the possible climate change scenarios of Bangladesh in different condition along with its impact.
Weather and climate have both short-term and long-term impacts on livestock development and management. This talk will focus on longer-term trends in climate and drought over time across the United States and the impacts of changes in these factors on animal agriculture. We will start by examining the trends in temperature and precipitation that have occurred over different regions of the US over the past century and how they have varied from one area to another. Then we will look at how future climate is predicted and problems in making useful predictions. We will follow that by looking at some of the most reliable predictions of future climate and discuss the potential impacts on livestock health, forage and feed supply, and farm management practices and the importance of resilience in farm practices. We will conclude by identifying both the challenges and the opportunities for future livestock producers in a changing climate.
http://www.extension.org/pages/67615/impacts-of-a-changing-cimate-on-animal-agriculture
GLOBAL WARMING IS A HUGE ISSUE AND ITS NOT A LOCAL PROBLEM , NOT A NATIONAL ISSUE BUT ITS A GLOBAL ISSUE AND HAS AFFECTED THE CLIMATE OF THIS WORLD.
BE CAREFUL!
Climate is the average weather over a long period and we expect it to remain relatively constant. CC is the single biggest long-term problem we face - the evidence is overwhelming. CC is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism.
CC is not science fiction……and will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone. The key is actually discarding the idea that in order for a country to get rich, stay rich and get richer, you have to put more GHG in the atmosphere. That isn't true and it hasn't been true for years….. If we don't deal with this immediately, we will have island nations flooded; agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events and epidemic of unknown diseases. Our natural environment is very important in the aspects of peace because when we destroy our resources and our resources become scarce, we fight over that hastening CC.
The following interview offers a wealth of knowledge about security and counterterrorism through comments on diverse topics such as al-Qaeda’s metastasized activities, to how the U.S. needs to articulate a strategic view to counter terrorism of the future and offer leadership.
A recent presentation about why economic growth in the US is slow and how budget deficits retard growth. Presented by Carlos Zarazaga, senior research economist of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Part of DCFR's Series "M" on money issues, September 25th, 2012..
Presentation by Dr. Dennis Ippolito about the US budget, deficits and tax proposal comparisons under various plans: Ryan, Obama, Simpson-Bowles, and Bipartisan Center's business as usual scenario.
This brief is a result of a January 30, 2012 program with Dr. Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute. DCFR explored the prospects for cities as growth engines and how to think about their development going forward.
Dr. Maria Minniti of SMU Cox School of Business presentation of January 30, 2012 on entrepreneurs, growth and cities. For the Series "D" panel on "Prospects for Cities."
From the first of a three-part series about global gas, sponsored by ExxonMobil, DCFR President Jennifer Warren interviewed panelist Mikkal Herberg, research director on Asian energy security at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR).
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El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
2. Water is the best
of all things.
Pindar, 500 BC
When the well's
dry, we know the
worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor
Richard's Almanac, 1746
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for
fighting over
Mark Twain ca 1881
3. Jack and Jill went up the hill to
fetch a pail of water.“ But Jack fell
down when tests came back
showing a high count of two
water-borne parasites known as
cryptosporidia and giardia lamblia
in his restaurant's water.
It's the water, stupid. Sorry about
that, but it is. If we don't pay
attention to the water, it's going to
bite us big time.“
21st Century Blogs
Tomorrow Is Not Going to Be Like Yesterday
4. The 21st Century
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore”
5. The 21st Century
• Population Explosion
• Pressures for Development
• Scarce Resources
• Technological Surge
• Change
• Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous
National and World Situations
7. CLIMATE CHANGE!
A strong, credible body of scientific evidence
shows that climate change is occurring, is
caused largely by human activities, and poses
significant risks for a broad range of human and
natural systems,
7
8. It is virtually certain that increases in
the frequency and magnitude of warm
daily temperature extremes and
decreases in cold extremes will occur
in the 21st century at the global scale.
It is very likely that the length,
frequency, and/or intensity of warm
spells or heat waves will increase over
most land areas.
It is likely that the frequency of heavy
precipitation or the proportion of total
rainfall from heavy falls will increase in
the 21st century over many areas of
the globe.
9. Ten Warmest 12-month consecutive periods of the CONUS
Record
These are the warmest 12-month periods on record for the contiguous United States. The record begins
January 1895 .
Temperature Departure
Consecutive 12-month
Rank (from 20th Century
Period
Average)
Warmest May 2011 – April 2012* +2.80°F
November 1999 – October
2nd Warmest +2.70°F
2000
October 1999 – September
3rd Warmest +2.65°F
2000
4th Warmest April 2011 – March 2012* +2.61°F
September 2005 – August
5th Warmest +2.56°F
2006
6th Warmest August 2005 – July 2006 +2.54°F
September 1999 – August
+2.54°F
2000
8th Warmest July 1999 – June 2000 +2.51°F
9th Warmest June 1999 – May 2000 +2.46°F
August 1999 – July 2000 +2.46°F
11. Water Security:
Flash Points and Challenges Ahead
Dallas, Texas
2 April 2013
Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., PE, PhD
Water Policy Collaborative, University of Maryland
13. Water Security
• The reliable availability of an acceptable
quantity and quality of water for health,
livelihoods and production, and
• An ability to deal with water-related
disasters such as floods, hurricanes and
drought
Adapted from David Gray and Claudia Sadoff
14. US Water Challenges
Drought and Water
Demand
• 2002 - 49 percent of the
contiguous United States in
moderate to extreme drought
• 2005-2007 Drought Grows in
West and Southeast
• 2011 – Texas ‘On Fire”
• Uncertainty - Climate
Change
16. US Water Challenges
Water Quality
• 55% of the nation’s
river and stream miles
do not support
healthy populations of
aquatic life
• Non-point source
pollution not yet
controlled (TMDLs?)
• Number of new
contaminants on rise
17. US Water Challenges
Water Quality
• Alien Invasive Species (AIS)
growing threat
• Airborne
pollution
increasing
• Fracking
18. US Water Challenges
Floods
• 76 Years of Flood Control
• 44 Years of Flood Insurance
• Increasing Flood Damages
• Average annual losses -
$8 Billion Inadequate
Protection
• Inadequate Maintenance
19. city of Dallas/ David Mimlitch
City of Dallas/ David Mimlitch
21. Coastal Flood Area Change
Gulf of Mexico (Illustrative, not final)
Climate Change and the NFIP 21
22. US Water Challenges
Ports , Harbors and Waterways in Transition
• Limiting Port Depths
• US Ports ~45 foot depths
• International Ports > 60 foot
depths –Panamax II Capable
• Inland Waterway System
• Limited Size Locks
• Traffic Congestion
• Age
• Economic Viability
23. US Water Challenges
Protecting the Environment
• Wetland and Species Losses
• ~ 60,000 acres annual wetland
loss
• >1370 threatened or endangered
plants and animals (1100 plans)
• Need for minimum instream flows
and flood pulses
26. US Water Challenges
Water - Energy Nexus
• Water for Energy and Fuel
Production
• Energy for Water Production
• Exploitation of Renewable
Sources
• Maximizing Sustainable Use
of Hydro Capabilities
28. 1. The Nation Lacks a National Water
Vision and a Water Policy
2. Water Efforts Are Uncoordinated
3. Water Must Be Dealt with in a Holistic
Manner
29. US Water Challenges
Dealing with Global Water Challenges
• Water and Sanitation (MDG)
• Water Supply
• Disasters
• Transboundary Water
Relationships
• Major Basin Development
30. Water Factoids
• One Billion People Lack Access to Safe
water
• Two Billion People Live in Countries
under Water Stress
• Five Million People Die Each Year from
Water-related Illness
Source: DOS;FP
31. Cubic Meters of Water Per Capita by Basin
Source: Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database
33. SHARING WATER RESOURCES
• There are 263
transboundary basins
• 145 nations have territory
within a transboundary
basin, and 21 lie entirely
within one.
• 12 countries have more
than 95% of their territory
within one or more
transboundary basins.
• On third of the
transboundary basins are
shared by more than two
countries.
34. Good Neighbors?
• 97% of Egypt’s Nile Water
dependent on 8 other nations
• 66% of Iraq’s Water dependent
on Turkey
• 19 Countries rely on Imported
Water for > 50% of renewable
resources
Source: SEI, Polestar Series, Report 4
44. Impediments to Progress
• Lack of Policy
– US Internal
– US Foreign Policy
• Little Interest in Water
• Denial of Change Impacts
• Focus on Small Projects
• Nervousness about Major Projects
• Limited Funding
45. The Challenge
• Involve All Elements of Society and All
Nations in a Complex Political, Social
and Technical Process
• Export Our Lessons Learned, Not Our
Mistakes
Are We Ready?