Climate Change Adaptation 

Water conservation makes sense period!  It also makes sense as an adaptive strategy for climate change, as well as a mitigative strategy to reduce energy consumption for water treatment, maintenance and new water supply infrastructure. 

 

"Thinking Beyond Pipes and Pumps" is an excellent example of expanding ones thinking to embrace the big and small picture of water supply and demand.

This document opens up to ideas including:

• Efficiency versus Conservation (pg. 4). Efficiency is a means; Conservation is an end.  Efficiency is just part of a way to deal with Conservation.  (read about it here)

• Water reclaim; reuse; recycle (pg. 31)

• Making managing demand part of daily business (pg. 13)

• Designing communities for conservation (pg. 36)

• Planning for sustainability through the soft path approach (p. 23).  This illustrates a long term approach to conservation.

 

Take time to link to the document pages noted above (and more); but make sure you come back for more adaptive ideas.