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  • Providing Water Security in an Uncertain World

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 20, 2019  //  By Nathanial Matthews
    Leparkeri. a Samburu warrior, stands inside a well he has dug along a dry river bed where he will water his livestock during the dry season. They sing as they lift the buckets of water from the deep wells  and each warrior's cattle knows who his owner is

    A problem is looming. Most water infrastructure isn’t designed to meet the demands of the increasingly volatile world that climate change is producing. Our modern landscape requires a reconceptualization of infrastructure’s demands and needs that often defies convention. And nowhere is a flexible and responsive approach more crucial than in water infrastructure, where we are experiencing unprecedented changes in flows and increasing pressures on consumption, according to Wellspring: Source Water Resilience and Climate Adaptation, a new report from the Global Resilience Partnership, the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation and The Nature Conservancy. The report explores some ways practitioners can take a new approach to source water protection that would enhance resilience and help sustain communities and ecosystems in a shifting climate.

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