Water security scenarios :  planning for installation water disruptions

Jenicek, Elisabeth M.; Garfinkle, Noah W.; Heath, Victoria E.; Miller, L. L.; Mithaiwala, Munira; Rodriguez, Amanda T.; Takov, Djordje

doi:10.21079/11681/37944

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“…One of the greatest threats to water security comes in the form of natural disasters, which have been increasing in frequency and severity over the last few decades [3][4][5][6]. Defined as "a potentially traumatic event that is collectively experienced, has an acute onset, and is time-delimited", natural disasters include events, such as hurricanes, severe weather and storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and fires [7,8]. Human and economic impacts related to water comprise a majority of natural disasters [9].…”

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Not All Disasters Are Created Equal: An Evaluation of Water Issues in Fire and Hurricane Media Coverage in the United States

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Eagleston

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Water resources are greatly impacted by natural disasters, but very little is known about how these issues are portrayed in the media across different types of disasters. Using a corpus of over 600 thousand local newspaper articles, this research evaluates whether the amount of coverage of water-related concerns of fires and hurricanes reflects news values associated with magnitude and proximity. A more detailed analysis focused on wildfires, which occur on undeveloped land and have the potential to spread rapidly, was also conducted to further evaluate spatial patterns in disaster-related water coverage. Our results indicate that the newspaper coverage patterns for water issues are not equally connected to magnitude and proximity values for fires and hurricanes. In our sample, coverage of water issues in relation to fires and wildfires consistently had an inverse relationship with overall event magnitudes, whereas the coverage of water issues in relation to hurricanes demonstrated a positive correlation. Although wildfires are more likely to be clustered in the western part of the country, there was a lack of positive correlations with wildfire magnitudes in this region. Possible influences for these patterns (e.g., limited impacts to humans and lack of shock-value) are discussed. Given the media’s role in facilitating disaster management and recovery, these nuances in coverage variations provide insight into opportunities for informing water security, which is especially important given the increasing frequency of natural disasters.

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Not All Disasters Are Created Equal: An Evaluation of Water Issues in Fire and Hurricane Media Coverage in the United States

Sanchez

Eagleston

Anker

et al. 2021

Water

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“…The technology is marketed as being able to eliminate health and aesthetic concerns while meeting regulations in most communities. 15 The gray water recycling system for toilet flushing, spray irrigation, and cooling towers uses treatment technology including a pre-filter and membrane bioreactor (biological treatment and ultra-filtration) to meet NSF 350 certified water quality for nonpotable use. 27 The system can be scaled from 20 000 gpd in commercial or industrial applications down to 50 gpd in residential applications.…”

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“…14 While on-site water reuse can reduce the building water demand and help maintain mission critical functions in terms of limited water supply, economic, retrofit challenges, stakeholder perception, and regulatory uncertainty can represent barriers to adoption. 15,16 More broadly, the implementation of decentralized water reuse may result in other potential (unintended) impacts related to the environment, public health, and infrastructure; [17][18][19] however, these were considered outside the scope of this study.…”

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