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Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Spicewood Beach, TX
Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Las Vegas, NM

  • Sub-sample of image: 2007 drought at Lake Lanier, by Tom Wilson.

    • Drought in the ACF River Basin
    scientists looking at a river

  • Barney Austin/Aqua Strategies Inc.

    • Evaluation of Sustainable Water Availability in Drought Prone Watersheds in Southeastern Oklahoma

  • Still image from the video, "Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts: Water Utility Climate Adaptation Planning" from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    • Exploring Adaptation Options for Water Infrastructure at Sea Level
    Ebyabe_Beach_Grayton_Beach

  • Photo attributed to Ebyabe. Incorporated here under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Florida's Community Resiliency Initiative
    river with mountains and trees

  • Photo attributed to Royalbroil. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • U.S. Global Change Research Program

  • Beautiful reflections of Boston's Back Bay from the esplanade on October 8, 2013. Photograph by Robbie Shade, CC-BY-2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/, via Flickr

    • Greening Boston: The Climate Change Preparedness and Resiliency Checklist
    homer, alaska welcome sign

  • (c) 2005 Derek and Julie Ramsey (Ram-Man). Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Homer, Alaska Climate Action Plan
    water control structure in pond

  • USFWS

    • Hydrologic Restoration of Peat Soils on Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

  • Michael Rieger, from the FEMA Photo Library. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    • Improving Communication of Flood Forecasts

  • Stormwater flows onto street in Annapolis, Maryland. Photo courtesy of Chesapeake Bay Program (stretched), CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/, via Flickr

    • Improving Water Quality by Dealing with the First Inch of Rain
    wetland

  • Ian Poellet

    • Integrating Climate Change into the U.S. National Estuarine Research Reserve System
    dead trees in water

  • USFWS

    • Land Acquisition to Address Saltwater Intrusion on Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge

  • Boston cityscape. Bert Kaufmann, Roermond, Netherlands. CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

    • Luck Is Not a Policy We Can Count On: Boston Takes a Proactive Approach to Climate Adaptation
    geese landing on a pond

  • Michele Whitbeck/USFWS

    • Marsh Migration and Thin-Layer Placement on Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge