EPA has published an updated version of the Power Resilience Guide, which provides water and wastewater utilities with information and strategies to help strengthen relationships with their electric providers and increase their resilience to power outages.
Yale Climate Connections has written an article discussing the intensity of the eastern U.S.’s spring wildfire season. While not as dramatic as the western U.S.’s wildfires, the same climate trends that have exacerbated that region’s fire risk also apply to the east.
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has updated its Probabilistic Storm Surge (P-Surge) model to version 3.0. The agency utilizes the P-Surge model as its primary method for predicting storm surges for high-impact weather events, like hurricanes and tropical storms, impacting the continental U.S., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
EPA’s Water Infrastructure and Cyber Resilience Division recently released updates to its mobile application for the water and wastewater sector, EPA Water Utility Response On-The-Go Plus.
EPA has published an updated version of the State Emergency Drinking Water Supply (EDWS) guidance, which can be used by state drinking water primacy agencies as a starting point in the development of a state-wide EDWS Plan.
The USDA Forest Service has released a press release covering a study from federal researchers analyzing the impacts of forest loss on water quality. The scientists focused on the Southern U.S., where over 80 percent of forests are privately owned and have seen significant reductions due to development, and found, among other items, that developing just 1 percent of forests upstream of an intake could result in an average 0.4 percent increase in the concentration of suspended sediment in the water.
Phys.org has written an article covering a study that tests the effectiveness of two different methods of generating flood hazard prediction maps (the runoff-correction method and the lookup method) by comparing their results against historical flood maps.
Multiple media outlets have reported that, while the Earth is currently under an El Niño Watch, a recent surge in oceanic temperatures may be an unprecedented event separate from the weather pattern.
The Conversation has written an article about a study analyzing how housing security played a role in national natural disaster preparedness. The study found 57 percent of the population were not prepared in the areas of food, water, emergency funds, and transportation in case of natural disaster. Taking housing into effect, insecure households, or those behind on their payments, were even less prepared for disaster even compared to socioeconomic peers.
The Conversation has written an article about a study analyzing statistically implausible heatwaves and the regions most at risk of being impacted.
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