Climate Change Adaptation Measures Toolbox

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This page provides a comprehensive and easy to use toolbox of possible adaptation measures. Please select one or more of the group filters below to obtain detailed information on the measures of interest.

Please find more information in the ICPDR Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change.

Water management

  • Transferring inter-basins of water for the compensation of the deficits in some basins

  • Taking additional efforts to prevent water scarcity and be better prepared to tackle the impacts of droughts

  • Incorporation of climate change adaptation in water management by continuing the focus on sustainability (sustainable balance between water availability and demand)

  • Implementation of water use restriction and limitations in water abstraction and pumping during drought events.

  • Creation of a hierarchy of water supply restrictions applied during the drought event and coordination of communities among institutions involved in water management

  • Adapting/ Changing water management plans

Water prizing

  • Water prizing of agriculutral and industrial water (and refunding)

Water recovery

  • Preference of measures that maintain or reinforce water bodies' natural ability to adapt, as well as their habitat diversity (for example, renaturation of water bodies and riparian meadows; enhancement of water retention via setting-aside of retention areas; and properly adapted agricultural management)

Water storage

  • Use of existing dams and reservoirs as well as additional ones to redistribute precipitation, snow and ice-melt between seasons by water storage.

  • Increase storage capacities