Hello Peter. This is a good ...
Published by Joshua Rosenblatt BSc MPA
Hello Peter. This is a good approach in bringing more science and policy to the perspective of the water treatment operator and or a water utility director. I am a water resources professional with science and operational background in southern New Mexico. I was the first @Water Conservation Coordinator for the City of Las Cruces, NM at the southern boarder with TX and Mexico.
I fully agree with the response of @Steven Cooke, to identify supplies vulnerability and the tool box of adaptive response to shortages triggered from from whatever the cause from the operational perspective rather then the emphasis on Climate Change and even CO2. People pump CO2 into greenhouses to enhance plant growth. Perhaps more utilization with CO2 emissions as a resource for food security will be part of future @urban agriculture for @food security. These are policy and inventive opportunities not usually in the hands of the water operator but some knowledge of which may provide solace/frustration.
I do have case studies that would be very helpful from agencies throughout the arid southwest as well as my own hands on involvement in ops, water conservation, municipal wastewater reclamation and more. I am a board member of the organization @Westcas a stakeholder group of water agencies of the arid southwest. I encourage you to visit their website and can scroll through the library of presentations that were posted from past conferences as you will find some excellent material for your endeavor of case studies and costs associated with management and technologies regional and site specific adaptive response initiatives and technologies to sustain deliveries and conserve water supplies to the populations served of the arid southwestern states.
Please feel free to contact me directly as I can't type as fast as I have information to convey. :)
I wish you great success to your project.
Joshua Rosenblatt, BSc, MPA