{"id":72515,"date":"2023-12-04T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kwrwater.nl\/actueel\/climate-change-risk-management-for-the-water-sector\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:23:41","slug":"climate-change-risk-management-for-the-water-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kwrwater.nl\/en\/actueel\/climate-change-risk-management-for-the-water-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change risk management for the water sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post_intro\">\n<p>The impact of our changing climate on our water systems is becoming more apparent by the year. On a global scale, many instances of water extremes (either too much \u2013 floodings \u2013 or too little \u2013 droughts) can reasonably only be <a href=\"https:\/\/climateattribution.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">attributed<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to anthropogenic climate change. On a national scale, we are seeing both an increase in annual precipitation and an increase in the incidence of summer droughts, impacting the availability and quality of drinking water sources, infrastructure requirements, food and energy production, etc. More than ever, it is important for to understand what is ahead of us, to be able to anticipate. This is especially challenging for the water industry, as planning and construction of abstraction, treatment and transport\/distribution infrastructure may often take a long time (decades scale) and infrastructure is built to last for many decades.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Climate projections such as those published on a global scale by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/ar6-syr\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">IPCC<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and on a regional or national scale by institutes such as the Netherlands\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knmi.nl\/over-het-knmi\/about\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">KNMI<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> have proven invaluable and continue to be an important pillar for understanding future boundaries and needs with respect to the water system. They feed a wide range of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwrwater.nl\/en\/onderzoek\/sustainability-water-cycle-en\/preparing-for-climate-change\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">research<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and decisions on topics ranging from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijkswaterstaat.nl\/nieuws\/archief\/2023\/10\/wat-betekenen-de-nieuwe-knmi-klimaatscenarios-voor-rijkswaterstaat\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">flood protection<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivm.nl\/drinkwater\/klimaatverandering-drinkwater\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">drinking water demand<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Subsequent generations of projections and scenarios (currently IPCC\u2019s AR6 and the KNMI\u201923 scenarios) are consistent in the predicted direction of change and represent the evolving insights of climate science.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kwrwater.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/water.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>High Impact events of perceived Low Likelihood<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">However, there is more to adapting to climate change than understanding how the climate may evolve. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/bams\/100\/9\/bams-d-18-0280.1.xml?tab_body=fulltext-display\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">his 2018 paper<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Rowan Sutton argues that the climate science community does not pay sufficient attention to risk management. Risk is often understood to be the product of likelihood and impact (and sometimes exposure). According to Sutton, the climate science community, in particular those parts focusing on the physical aspects of climate change, focuses on the likelihood aspect and neglects the impact aspect.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Risk management is standing practice with many water utilities and water authorities for the management and maintenance of infrastructure. However, the case of climate change related risk management is especially challenging, also for the water sector. Therefore, Sutton\u2019s argument is particularly relevant for our industry. Sutton builds his argument on the pioneering climate change risk management paper by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csap.cam.ac.uk\/projects\/climate-change-risk-assessment\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">King <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (2015)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. These authors propose the following key principles:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Identify risks in relation to objectives (human perspective).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1)\" data-font=\"Calibri,Arial\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;%1)&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Identify the biggest risk.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1)\" data-font=\"Calibri,Arial\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;%1)&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Consider the full range of probabilities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1)\" data-font=\"Calibri,Arial\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;%1)&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Use the best available information.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1)\" data-font=\"Calibri,Arial\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;%1)&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Take a holistic view (i.e., consider all relevant factors).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1)\" data-font=\"Calibri,Arial\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;%1)&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Be explicit about value judgements.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sutton argues that the second and third of King\u2019s principles stress \u201cthe importance of paying specific attention to high-impact events. Even if their likelihood is considered low\u201d. So-called HILL (High Impact Low Likelihood) events, such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/global-tipping-points.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">climate tipping point<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> activations, \u201care a central concern in risk management\u201d, but only play a minor role in reports and are absent from climate projections and scenarios. Their designation of low-likelihood events is debatable (unknown likelihood seems more appropriate) and their absence from climate scenarios removes them from the view of risk managers.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Take all plausible developments into account<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To translate this to the water sector, as a consequence, part of the risk spectrum is outside our sector\u2019s field of view. It does not see and therefore cannot anticipate, climate \u201csurprises\u201d (key principles 3 and 5). In addition to this, the end users of climate projections and scenarios in the water sector may be tempted to stick to the mean\/median climate projections for any particular Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP). In doing so, the spread and uncertainty in the development of the global human society (i.e., the SSPs) is effectively considered to represent the complete spread of possible climate outcomes. This is obviously incorrect. All SSP climate projections by the IPCC come with a (relatively wide) confidence interval that reflects the variability between climate models and some <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccs.admin.ch\/nccs\/en\/home\/climate-change-and-impacts\/swiss-climate-change-scenarios\/order-the-ch2018-brochure.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">national institutes<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> do the same. If a model on either extreme of the distribution turns out to be closest to the real climate system, the mean or median projections are actually quite far off the true climate development.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We also need to consider the following: 1) the climate science community\u2019s understanding of and capacity to comprehensively model all aspects of our climate system on all relevant scales is impressive but nevertheless <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2021RG000757\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">incomplete<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">; 2) models still have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hal.science\/hal-03937057v2\/document\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">difficulties<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in accurately predicting weather extremes associated with climate change. Therefore, the model uncertainty cannot be trusted to represent the full epistemic uncertainty. So, again, the water sector cannot see the risks associated with the full epistemic uncertainty of the climate projections). Therefore, it cannot anticipate the more marginal (but not necessarily irrelevant) climate projections (key principle 3).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Domain experts should decide on risk appreciation of scenarios<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One can ask oneself how much this matters. In the end, the scenarios that are put forward by the climate science community (IPCC, national institutes) are truly the best that current science has to offer. But it is the risk manager that needs to decide which risks are acceptable, which not and whether to take a risk-averse or a more risk-tolerant approach to climate change adaptation. For that, she needs to know all the risks (as put forward by King). More generally, this also impacts on the decision of how to deal with risk, e.g., whether robustness is the way to go (which may be acceptable when there is significant confidence on the bounds of the projections), or whether flexibility and adaptability is a preferable strategy. These decisions have such a strong domain component that it is really the domain experts that need to decide on the risk appreciation.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sutton\u2019s message is one that the water sector should heed. The key principles put forward by King <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> should be embraced by our industry. Yet, there is more. Recent years have shown an increasing awareness of multi-hazards, consecutive disasters, compound effects, etc. (e.g., reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwrwater.nl\/en\/actueel\/the-big-picture-and-the-details-impressions-from-egu23\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">). Managing these risks requires a yet more elaborate and comprehensive approach to climate change risk management (see, e.g., <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/one-earth\/pdf\/S2590-3322(21)00179-2.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Simpson <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, 2023)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">More about climate scenarios, tipping points and extremes is written in the recent Trendalert <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Klimaatscenario&#8217;s, -kantelpunten en -extremen<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (climate scenarios, tipping points and extremes), available to organisations that are part of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwrwater.nl\/en\/samenwerkingen\/joint-research-programme-with-the-water-utilities\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Joint Research Programme<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwsi.nl\/english\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dutch Water Sector I<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">intelligence<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:255}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than ever, it is important for the water sector to understand what is ahead of us, to be able to anticipate. Climate projections such as those published on a global scale by the IPCC and national institutes have proven invaluable and continue to be an important pillar for understanding future boundaries and needs with respect to the water system. But proper risk management in the water sector requires a more comprehensive view on all possible and plausible climate paths, and water domain expertise for the appreciation of the associated risks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":72507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","gtag-climate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Climate change risk management for the water sector - KWR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kwrwater.nl\/en\/actueel\/climate-change-risk-management-for-the-water-sector\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Climate change risk management for the water sector - KWR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than ever, it is important for the water sector to understand what is ahead of us, to be able to anticipate. 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