Community-Based Water Resiliency Tool
About the CBWR Tool
U.S. EPA’s Community-Based Water Resiliency (CBWR) electronic tool helps assess your community’s resiliency to water service disruptions and provides more than 340 tools and resources that can be used to enhance resiliency. The tool contains a self-assessment feature that provides users with questions tailored to their stakeholder group and culminates in a self-assessment summary report, which details the strengths and weaknesses of the users’ community’s resiliency and recommends tools and resources that can be used to enhance resiliency. Users can then navigate to the CBWR toolbox, where they can find more information about the recommended tools and resources.
These resources for water resiliency and protection can be implemented by community stakeholder groups including the Water Sector, Healthcare and Public Health Sector, Emergency Services Sector, State and Tribal Primacy Agencies, Local Officials, Community Partners, and other Non-Water Entities.
How to Download, Extract, and Run the CBWR Tool
- Click on the “CBWR Tool .zip file” document below.
- Click the “Download” button to begin downloading the compressed (.zip) file to your computer.
- Once the file has completed downloading, locate the file on your computer (typically in your Downloads folder or on your Desktop).
- Right-click on the file icon and select “Extract All…” or “Extract”
- Follow the on-screen instructions for extracting the CBWR Tool package to a location of your choice.
- Once the extraction operation is complete, navigate to the location to which you extracted the files.
- Double-click the “CBWRTool.bat” file and wait for the installation procedure to begin.