1. The Climate Resilience Toolkit and the Water Utility and Planning Communities: Experiences of Successful Partnering Nancy Beller-Simms, Ph.D. Program Manager, NOAA CPO, Sectoral Applications Research Program Webinar Series April 13, 2015

2. This talk is based on experiences with building the water sector of the Climate Resilience Toolkit

3. Some Background: Climate Resilience Toolkit – Water Sector Extreme Events Study Extreme Precipitation Dashboard

4. First Thoughts on Developing Partners Partnerships are serendipity; they depend upon: showing up, listening, observing, challenging, and caring. They are cultivated – not developed over night. For large scale activities (e.g., this toolkit) – scale, geography, draw and influence matter. Personal relationships also matter.

5. Current Partners for the “Dashboard” American Planning Association (APA): James Schwab American Water Works Association (AWWA): Adam Carpenter Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA): Erica Brown Water Environment Federation (WEF): Claudio Ternieden Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF): Katy Lackey Water Research Foundation (WRF): Kenan Ozekin

6. Good Partnerships evolve with: substance, people, and goals. result from acceptance of differing views as everyone interprets the world differently

7. General Approach: Meet regularly. Agree upon goals. Re-evaluate goals. Specific Approach: Better understand population. Develop survey. Identify most relevant constituents (avoided member fatigue) for inclusion in survey. Developing the Extreme Events Dashboard

8. The Survey*** *** With special thanks to Katy Lackey for compiling and illustrating the statistics.

9. Survey Statistics and Participants Online for 2 weeks, 11 multi-layered questions Online for 2 weeks, 11 multi-layered questions Sent to 745 people Sent to 745 people 66 responses  10 thrown out = 56 TOTAL 66 responses  10 thrown out = 56 TOTAL 34 completed ALL questions 34 completed ALL questions InstitutionDate SentTarget Group# of Participants AMWA16-OctSustainability Committee56 APA16-Oct Hazard Mitigation & Disaster Recovery Interest Group 250 AWWA20-OctClimate Change Committee150 WERF15-OctClimate Change Listserv264 WRF (WaterRF)15-OctSelected group w/CC interest25 TOTAL 745 Slides liberally “borrowed” from: Katy Lackey, Water Environmental Research Foundations

11. Use of Climate Information Frequent (50%+) 1.Understanding risk for water supply 2.Infrastructure/capital investments 3.Operational purposes Frequent/Occasional (50%+) 4.Prepare hazard mitigation/climate adaptation 5.Develop impact reports & risk assessments 6.Plan extreme events 7.Plan explicit forecast 8.Plan emergency/long-term response 9.Other purposes Don’t Use/May in Future (50%+) 10.Rebuilding following an extreme event

12. Sources, Scales, Types and Forms NWS, NCDC, NOAA Northwest RISA Universities, local emergency management, blogs

13. Using the survey results, we brought scientists and representatives from the foundations together to discuss what would be practical in a dashboard. We are currently developing the dashboard. We anticipate that it will include data sets for: climate stressors (e.g., monthly normals & extremes); people and assets (e.g., soil moisture index, vulnerability index) forecasts (e.g., 6-10 day precip and temp).

14. Next Steps Dashboard Climate Resilience Toolkit Educational Activities (combining with new partners) Teacher inclusion in CRT case studies

15. Successful Partnerships 1.are serendipity; they depend upon: showing up, listening, observing, challenging, and caring. 2. evolve with: substance, people, and goals. 3.result from acceptance of differing views as everyone interprets the world differently 4. combine viewpoints which often result in practical, cutting edge, and innovative solutions

16. Thank you! More Information: Nancy Beller-Simms Nancy.beller-simms@noaa.gov 301-734-1205

17. Next Steps: Barriers & Tools Lack of training/education is primary barrier (50%) 1. Managing/processing data 2. Understanding/interpretation non-climate professional 3. Modeling skills 4. Downsizing forecasts to local scale *Other barriers: access, local skepticism

18. Use of Climate Info 71% currently use for planning purposes 71% currently use for planning purposes Of the 29% that do not: Of the 29% that do not: 38% plan to use in the future 38% plan to use in the future 44% might use in the future 44% might use in the future

19. Next Steps: Barriers and Tools 63% say data needs will change in future: 63% say data needs will change in future: Needed formats vary  data maps, GeoTiff, KML among most popular

20. Next Steps: Barriers & Tools Future products or tools: Adjustments / updates to existing tools Adjustments / updates to existing tools Precipitation data to assist design Precipitation data to assist design All data in one place All data in one place Economic impact indicator Economic impact indicator Timeframe assessment for climate change Timeframe assessment for climate change No new tools, just better access No new tools, just better access

21. Sources, Scales, Types and Forms Time Scales Level of Need Most critical Helpful Not critical at present Foresee critical in future Planning Purpose (most common identified) Minutes to hours 37%17%39%7%Immediate response (54%) Hours to a day 37%34%24%5%Short-term (39%) A day to several days 33%50%10%8%Short-term (49%) Days to weeks 20%61%15%5%Medium (39%) Weeks to months 15%66%15%5%Medium (56%) Months to years (seasonal) 24%60%12%5%Long-term (55%) Years to decades 18%58%18%8%Long-term (84%) Decades to centuries 3%45%50%3%Long-term (64%)