Evaluating Implementation Uncertainties and Defining Safe Operating Spaces for Deeply Uncertain Cooperative Multi‐City Water Supply Investment Pathways

Abstract

Urban water utilities worldwide face supply reliability and financial stability challenges stemming from climate change and growing water demands (Farmani & Sweetapple, 2022;Pörtner et al., 2022), which are aggravated by the additional challenge of aging infrastructure. In the United States (U.S.), an estimated $434 billion of investment in maintaining and development water supply infrastructure is required by 2029 (ASCE, 2021). The 2022 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act allocates over $55 billion of federal funding for drinking water infrastructure (DeFazio, 2021), but the remaining investment burden will be borne by local governments (Smull et al., 2022). The provision of drinking water in the U.S. is thus dominantly a local issue-balancing the reliable

Revolutionizing U.S. Pavement Infrastructure: A pathway to sustainability and resilience through nanotechnology and AI Innovations

“…However, aging nature of existing infrastructure resources increase significantly many challenges for the duty of the pavement. Urban water utilities everywhere have for a long time the issues of water reliability, financial concerns and weak points, which the climate change makes an additional strain on the utilization of the old infrastructure (Lau et al, 2023). Such matters demand pronounced strategic thinking, giving priority to infrastructure renewal and use of the innovative methodologies to secure uninterruptedly the performance of roads.…”