ERIS

The Environmental Research Institute of the States

water

Rethinking Water Markets for Multiple Benefits

This meeting will consider the broad implications and benefits that can accrue from water markets, including increasing flexibility and options in meeting various social, environmental, and regulatory targets and priorities. The meeting will explore concepts such as water quality trading to reduce pollutants and protect ecosystems, providing instream flows for aquatic systems, groundwater banking to optimize water allocations among different users, learning from other types of commodity markets, and issues related to scale, data availability, transparency, monitoring, and stakeholder involvement.

Overview of Water Resilience Products

This webinar will discuss the development and accuracy of next-generation intensity-duration-frequency curves for enhancing hydrologic design, and coupled models to support evaluation of risk from disruption of water infrastructure.

Premise Plumbing

This webinar will look at how to deal with contamination of premise plumbing.

Enhancing Climate Resilience in the Water Sector

This is a one-hour webinar to assist drinking water and wastewater utilities with “Enhancing Climate Resilience in the Water Sector.” Participants will learn about the Climate-Resilient Water Utilities (CRWU) initiative developed by EPA to increase resilience to extreme weather events. The webinar will also feature the Water Research Foundation’s (WRF) efforts to help utility managers understand and assess climate-related risks and opportunities and incorporate them into strategic planning.
This webinar will:
  • Share information about the EPA’s free risk and resilience resources for water utilities, including resources to plan for extreme weather and tools to assess risks of extreme weather;
  • Discuss how EPA’s tools can be applied to water utilities of all sizes; and
  • Hear from water sector experts implementing programs to enhance resilience to extreme weather events.