Creating Resilient Water Utilities (CRWU)

Resilience Planning in Action

Interested in how water sector utilities across the country are adapting to weather variability? Check out CRWU’s Adaptation Case Studies for Water Utilities StoryMap, which tells the stories of utilities that have used EPA’s Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool to assess economic risk from weather events and identify adaptation strategies to increase system resilience. Want to participate and have your utility’s resilience story told? Request free climate risk assessment technical assistance from CRWU!
Register for Upcoming CRWU Trainings & Workshops

Check out the upcoming Workshops and Webinars webpage to sign up for CRWU’s free, virtual and in-person resilience trainings and workshops. Continuing education units are usually offered for qualified drinking water and wastewater operators. Future events will be added to the page as they are scheduled, so check back for more information.
Explore CRWU’s Community Co-Benefits of Water Utility Resilience StoryMap!

Learn how water utility resilience planning can create co-benefits for small, rural, and disadvantaged communities through this StoryMap! It provides background information, data, case studies, and more resources to help your utility incorporate community co-benefits into resilience planning.

(Image credit: Tanya Hollifield, 2021)
Bring on the Snow!

Check out CRWU’s Snowpack Map to see how the amount of snowpack and timing of snowmelt is projected to change in your watershed, and how utilities in the Western U.S. have begun planning for and adapting to changes in future snowpack conditions.

EPA’s CRWU initiative provides drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater (water sector) utilities with practical tools, training, and technical assistance to increase system resilience to near- and longer-term weather variability. CRWU helps promote a clear understanding of climate data and helps water sector utilities identify potential adaptation strategies, implementation options, and infrastructure financing.

Risk Assessment Tools

Resilient Strategies Guide: For those in the early stages of understanding potential risks, typically smaller water sector utilities.
Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool: For those that want to take a comprehensive approach to water sector utility near- and longer-term weather variability risk assessment.