Crise de abastecimento de água em São Paulo e falta de planejamento estratégico

Embora a crise no abastecimento de água na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP) tenha se manifestado de maneira mais intensa no verão de 2013-2014, ela revela um problema crônico que vem afetando toda a Região nos últimos dez anos. Esse problema foi gerado pela falta de um planejamento estratégico que considere questões climatológicas que podem indicar, com meses de antecedência, problemas de recomposição dos níveis dos mananciais, permitindo que ações sejam empreendidas com razoável antecedência, reduzindo os impactos para a população. Este estudo mostra como é possível utilizar informações climáticas na gestão estratégica do sistema de abastecimento da RMSP.Though the crisis in the water supplying system in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (RMSP) was more intensively felt in the 2013-2014 summer, it reveals a chronic problem that has been affecting the whole RMSP for the past ten years. This problem is originated from the lack of a strategic planning that takes into consideration climate issues that could, months before, foresee problems to restore the levels of water resources, allowing measures to be implemented within a reasonable anticipation, therefore reducing the impacts on the population. This study shows how it is possible to use climate information in the strategic management of the water supply in the RMSP

Cross-Sections for Five Rivers in Alabama

These are cross-sections measured using an RTK-GPS for the Cahaba, West Fork Choctawhatchee, Paint Rock, Sipsey, and Upper Tallapoosa rivers in Alabama

Cross-Sections for Five Rivers in Alabama

These are cross-sections measured using an RTK-GPS for the Cahaba, West Fork Choctawhatchee, Paint Rock, Sipsey, and Upper Tallapoosa rivers in Alabama

Stream Restoration and Environmental Justice in North Carolina

This is a dataset of stream restoration projects and environmental justice metrics in North Carolina. The data are organized as follows:"projects" tab: contains all stream restoration projects funded by the North Carolina Land and Water Fund (NCLWF) from 2013-2020. Attributes include the year in which the project was funded, the project name, the award amount, and the county. "counties" tab: for all North Carolina counties, contains the number of NCLWF-funded projects from 2013-2020 in the county, the county population, the stream length within the county, and environmental justice metrics for the county (stream length, people of color, low-income, linguistically isolated, less than high school education, under age 5, and over age 64."block_groups" tab: for all NCLWF projects from 2013-2020, contains the county in which the project is located, the stream on which the project is located, and environmental justice metrics for the census block group in which the project is located (people of color, low-income, linguistically isolated, less than high school education, under age 5, and over age 64).Data sources:NCLWF projects: https://nclwf.nc.gov/funded-projectsEnvironmental justice projects: https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen/download-ejscreen-dataTHIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV

Water Supply, Demand, and Quality Indicators for Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Water Resource Vulnerability in the Columbia River Basin

We investigated water resource vulnerability in the US portion of the Columbia River basin (CRB) using multiple indicators representing water supply, water demand, and water quality. Based on the US county scale, spatial analysis was conducted using various biophysical and socio-economic indicators that control water vulnerability. Water supply vulnerability and water demand vulnerability exhibited a similar spatial clustering of hotspots in areas where agricultural lands and variability of precipitation were high but dam storage capacity was low. The hotspots of water quality vulnerability were clustered around the main stem of the Columbia River where major population and agricultural centres are located. This multiple equal weight indicator approach confirmed that different drivers were associated with different vulnerability maps in the sub-basins of the CRB. Water quality variables are more important than water supply and water demand variables in the Willamette River basin, whereas water supply and demand variables are more important than water quality variables in the Upper Snake and Upper Columbia River basins. This result suggests that current water resources management and practices drive much of the vulnerability within the study area. The analysis suggests the need for increased coordination of water management across multiple levels of water governance to reduce water resource vulnerability in the CRB and a potentially different weighting scheme that explicitly takes into account the input of various water stakeholders