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 supply infrastructure

  • Consideration of additional water supply infrastructures, creation of local and regional water networks or establishment of further water treatment systems, identification and evaluation of alternative strategic water resources (surface and groundwater)

Water treatment

  • Creation of alternative technological solutions like desalinization and reuse of wastewater

Water-saving

  • Efficient use of water to ensure sustainability

  • Use of “grey-water”, roof drainage water or process water for technical and industrial purposes that do not require drinking water quality

  • Use of purified and microbiologically safe wastewater for watering farmland Improvement of the treatment of the residual and domestic water

  • Low-loss irrigation of agricultural land

  • Precautions against water losses in distribution networks

  • Collection of rainwater

  • More efficient water use and conservation by the rehabilitation of the transportation and distribution installations and also through technological modifications (the promotion of the technologies with low water consumption, etc.)

  • More efficient cooling of power stations