CREAT Risk Assessment Application for Water Utilities

Short Summary of Resource
This is a risk assessment application that helps utilities to adapt to extreme weather events by better understanding current and long-term weather conditions.
Detailed description of the resource
Users can find out which extreme weather events pose significant challenges to utility and build scenarios to identify potential impacts; Identify critical assets and the actions that can taken to protect them from the consequences of extreme weather events on utility operations and generate reports describing the costs and benefits risk reduction strategies for decision makers and stakeholders
Keywords
CLIMATE AND WEATHER Risks, CLIMATE AND WEATHER Adaptation
Content Owners / Rights Holders
US Environmental Protection Agency
Date of Publication
2016
Type of Resource
Tool
Format of Resource
online
Relevant Sector
Industry & resources
Geographical Scope
Local government
Relevant LG Functional Area
Water and waste, Asset management, Engineering/infrastructure
Council Type
Urban
URL / DOI for resource access
https://www.epa.gov/crwu/build-resilience-your-utility?platform=hootsuite>
Relevant Governance Indicator
Climate risk management, Asset management