This option appears in resilience plans from around the country.
| Option from plan | Hazards Sort descending | Assets | Region | Source Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase water efficiency and conservation. | Drought | Water Infrastructure – General | Southwest | Statewide Summary Report: California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment |
| Encourage building owners, developers and homeowners to install WaterSense appliances, showerheads and toilets to conserve water. Increasing water use | Drought | Property | National | HUD Community Resilience Toolkit (p. 23) |
| Implement commercial cooling tower system upgrade program in other processes. Encourage commercial and industrial adoption of such processes. | Drought | Critical Facilities | Southwest | Phoenix, AZ Climate Action Plan (p. 183) |
| Encourage commercial and industrial cooling tower system upgrades that decrease water use. Increasing water use efficiency can prevent or alleviate drought impacts. Cooling towers can be high volume water | Drought | Critical FacilitiesProperty | Southeast | Triangle Region, NC Regional Resilience Assessment |
| Expand existing SRP program that subsidizes cost of irrigation controllers for residential use. | Drought | Property | Southwest | Phoenix, AZ Climate Action Plan (p. 185) |
| Develop a toilet retrofit program with an emphasis on serving low-income households. Such programs feature a rebate to customers that purchase and install a low flow toilet that uses 1.28 gallons per | Drought | Water Infrastructure – WastewaterProperty | Southwest | Phoenix, AZ Climate Action Plan (p. 185) |
| Promote water conservation and water reuse in local businesses and industry. Increasing water use efficiency can prevent or alleviate drought impacts. | Drought | Water Infrastructure – Drinking WaterProperty | Southwest | Climate Resilient San Diego (p. 48 (pdf p. 54)) |
