Resilient water infrastructure partnerships in institutionally complex systems face challenging supply and financial risk tradeoffs.

ABSTRACT: As regions around the world invest billions in new infrastructure to overcome increasing water scarcity, better guidance is needed to facilitate cooperative planning and investment in institutionally complex and interconnected water supply systems. This work combines detailed water resource system ensemble modeling with multiobjective intelligent search to explore infrastructure investment partnership design in the context of ongoing canal rehabilitation and groundwater banking in California. Here we demonstrate that severe tradeoffs can emerge between conflicting goals related to water supply deliveries, partnership size, and the underlying financial risks associated with cooperative infrastructure investments. We show how hydroclimatic variability and institutional complexity can create

SUBMITTER: Hamilton AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11350222 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature