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Learning from Crises to Build Urban Water Security
Sara Hughes, Michael T. Wilson, Jonathan Cohen, Rebecca Tisherman, Linnea Warren May, Jay Balagna, Sara Stullken | January 15th, 2025
In this report, the authors examine the experiences of five cities — Cape Town, South Africa; Melbourne, Australia; São Paulo, Brazil; and Las Vegas, Nevada, and New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States — facing severe or catastrophic water supply risks to identify steps that could be taken ahead of time to mitigate those risks and build urban water security.
Keywords
drought, planning and management, risk assessment, water supply