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Water
Climate change will continue to cause profound changes in the water cycle, increasing the risk of flooding, drought, and degraded water supplies for both people and ecosystems. While data and tools for water resources planning are improving, water infrastructure standards and management policies have been slow to meet the new challenges.
- Climate change will continue to cause profound changes in the water cycle
- Water cycle changes will affect all communities, with disproportionate impacts for some
- Progress toward adaptation has been uneven
From the Water chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. Photo by Alicia Pimental, Chesapeake Bay Program, CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
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Drought at Lake Mead. Photo by Chris Richards, via WikiMedia Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Si'u Point Trail, Ta'u Island, National Park of American Samoa, Department of the Interior, via Flickr. Used via a Creative Commons license, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program/FWS
