Climate Resilience Guide

Combining utility and expert knowledge, this comprehensive paper explores the impact of climate change on water utility systems and presents practical strategies for incorporating climate considerations into resilience planning through scenario development, infrastructure design, and digital tools. It introduces a new, interactive “SWAN Climate Resilience Framework” for benchmarking a QGIS plugin for resilience analysis. It also features four European utility case studies – covering topics from preventing seawater infiltration in Norway to mitigating climate-related pipe bursts in the UK with digital solutions.