Water Planning in an Age of Change

Enhancing water infrastructure planning to reduce risk

By David Jermain

October 2020

Over the past two decades, critical infrastructure planning has emerged as a framework that can help decision-makers understand infrastructure interdependencies and enable individual infrastructure plans to better respond to disruptive events. By examining U.S. water planning methods and how interdependencies of critical infrastructure are driving the need for new water planning approaches, the Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability) has identified opportunities for enhanced water planning.

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