Water Research Institute, Italian National Research Council, Via De Blasio 5, Bari, 70132, Italy.
Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL, UK.
Environ Manage. 2019 Aug;64(2):138-153. doi: 10.1007/s00267-019-01184-5. Epub 2019 Jun 24.
One of the consequences of the generally agreed rise of global temperatures, furtherly exacerbated by the growth of water demand caused by the needs of a growing population, is an increase of areas with water stress. This will imply and in part is already implying, an always greater imbalance between water (and in particular drinking water) demand and supply. These issues are among those investigated by the "Adapting Drinking Water resources to the Impacts of Climate change in Europe" (ADWICE) project that had, among its main goals, the identification of priority adaptation measures aimed at reducing drinking water vulnerability to the pressures of a changing climate. In this paper these adaptation measures are described, with special attention given to their associated European water policy context. The complexity of designing and implementing such adaptation measures will benefit from integrating drinking water concerns with wider water management, within a framework able to facilitate the necessary complex collaborations between various actors involved in the different scales of the decision-making arena and to develop an effective science policy interfacing mechanism. Last, but not least, because drinking water is commonly considered by stakeholders and citizens to be a public service, drinking water managers should enable their involvement in the adaptation decision-making process, to ensure their acceptance and cooperation and to prevent conflicts.
全球气温普遍上升的后果之一，进一步加剧了由于人口增长而导致的用水需求的增长，这将导致水资源紧张地区的增加。这将意味着（并且已经在一定程度上意味着），水（特别是饮用水）需求和供应之间的不平衡将越来越大。这些问题是“适应欧洲气候变化对饮用水资源的影响”（ADWICE）项目研究的课题之一，该项目的主要目标之一是确定旨在减少饮用水对气候变化压力脆弱性的优先适应措施。本文介绍了这些适应措施，并特别关注了它们在欧洲水政策背景下的应用。设计和实施这些适应措施的复杂性将受益于将饮用水问题与更广泛的水资源管理相结合，建立一个能够促进不同利益相关者在决策领域不同规模之间进行必要的复杂合作的框架，并建立一个有效的科学政策接口机制。最后但同样重要的是，由于利益相关者和公民普遍认为饮用水是一种公共服务，饮用水管理者应该使他们能够参与适应决策过程，以确保他们的接受和合作，并防止冲突。
