Will Raleigh Face Water Crisis?
Access to clean water represents one of the single largest problems facing humanity today. The World Resources Institute (WRI) has created an online tool to help predict where and when water crisis will occur, across the globe -- down to the neighborhood scale.
Type in your address here to see what the future might hold. The project, called Aqueduct, gives a Baseline Water Stress -- Moderate Stress, for the Triangle, which means 10-20% of available fresh water is used. The analysis goes on to predict water sustainability conditions as far as 100 years out.
Risk is determined based on three categories: access and growth constraints, cost risk and disruption potential. Water basins are utilized as geographical units, and the project uses modeled data, spatial data and historical data to predict possible scenarios.
The WRI tool can be found here.
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09/16 07:27 AM
Perhaps not the city of Raleigh per se, but certainly the Triangle in general. Construction of Falls Lake and Jordan Lake enabled Wake County to quintuple its population since 1960. That rate of growth would have been unsustainable without the lakes. Even so, Falls Lake and Jordan Lake are filled from relatively small watersheds that collect a finite amount of rain—aside from the occasional hurricane. Building the Little River project in eastern Wake will help somewhat, but water could again become a constraint on the region’s growth.
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