Climate-Amplified Disaster Emergency Energy-Water Response: Community-Based Tools
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BOTTOM-UP, COMMUNITY-GENERATED AND -BASED TOOLS TO ANTICIPATE AND RESPOND TO EXTREME EVENTS:
CROSS-SECTORAL LINKAGES (ENERGY↔WATER, ENERGY↔COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS↔WATER)
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 4–6 p.m. EST (Washington DC/NY); 1–3 p.m. PST (CA/OR)
Friday, November 20, 2026, 7:30 a.m. ACDT (Adelaide); 8–10 a.m. AEDT (Sydney)
Livestreamed via Zoom and Recorded
- Intended audience: Community resilience organizations, emergency planners, water and power utilities, local governments, and climate adaptation specialists.
- Why it matters: Floods, extreme weather, and other disasters can simultaneously disrupt water, electricity, and communications. Communities need integrated response systems.
- Benefits to attendees: Explore practical community-based strategies, expert case studies, and ways to coordinate critical infrastructure.
- Take-home: A framework for identifying interdependencies between local water, energy, and communications systems.
- Organizer: Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, with the Evans Area Resilience Network and contributing experts.
- Replay: Yes. The organizer explicitly states that the workshop will be recorded.