Connected system
Food & Land
Irrigation ties food production to water availability.
Agriculture, food systems and land use
Water
Water security, treatment and desalination
Overview
Securing, treating and reusing water as rainfall patterns shift and demand from cities, farms and industry grows.
Challenges01
What makes change hard
Shifting rainfall that brings both droughts and floods.
Treating and pumping water takes a great deal of energy.
Cities, farms and industry drawing on the same sources.
Opportunities02
Where change is happening
Reusing treated wastewater.
Restoring wetlands and catchments that store and clean water naturally.
Monitoring and leak detection that cut losses from networks.
Solutions
Approaches in this system.
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Treated wastewater reuse
Cleaning wastewater to a standard where it can be used again, for farms, industry or rivers.
Connections
How it shapes the others.
Connected system
Energy
Power plants need water for cooling, and pumping and treating water needs energy.
Electricity, renewables, grids and storage
Your questions, answered.
Quick answers about the platform and its content.
One of eight broad areas, such as energy, buildings or water, where climate change is felt and addressed. Solutions and projects are organised around them.
They cover the main sources of emissions and the main places adaptation happens, while staying few enough to hold in mind at once.
Only well-established mechanisms are included, described in words. No quantities are attached unless a source supports them.
Yes, constantly. That is the point of mapping them together: a change in one shifts what is possible in others.
From published research and practice. Every entry is reviewed by people who know the field and linked to the systems, solutions and projects it relates to.
