Florida Water & Climate Alliance Webinar
Workshop 2
Public Water Supply Utilities Climate Impacts Working Group
The UF Water Institute, Florida Climate Institute and the UF IFAS Center for Public Issues Education are partnering with six major public water supply utilities, and three water management districts in Florida to explore interests in and potential benefits of forming a “Public Water Utilities Climate Impacts Working Group” focused on increasing the relevance and usability of climate change and variability data and tools to the specific needs of public water supply utilities in Florida. Initial stakeholder discussions (synthesis available on-line) and Workshop One (summary available on-line) aimed to determine if a “working group” will serve a purpose that is not being addressed through other venues and if there is business value in such a group for all stakeholders. At Workshop One the participants agreed it would be useful to continue to interact and that a second workshop should include learning about group members’ participation in various regional and national organizations and group participants projects, focused on evaluating potential climate impacts to water utilities. This information would provide a basis to further define “What is it that we can/will do together as a group that will be of mutual benefit, and that is not already being done through other venues?”
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The webinar featured the following presentations and speakers:
- The Water Research Foundation (WRF), Douglas Yoder, Deputy Director, Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (preworkshop document page 5)
- The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF), Douglas Yoder, Deputy Director, Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (preworkshop document page 9)
- EPA Climate Ready Utilities, National Drinking Water Advisory Council, Douglas Yoder, Deputy Director, Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (preworkshop document page 11)
- Introduction to SE Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, Larry Johnson, P.E, Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department ( link to presentation) (preworkshop document page 13)
- Local Governments for Sustainability, ICLEI Climate Program, Jayantha Obeysekera, SFWMD (preworkshop document page 15)
- Introduction to Water Utility Climate Alliance, Alison Adams, Source Rotation and Environmental Protection Manager, Tampa Bay Water (preworkshop document page17)
To access the database for all workshop files, click here.
