WATER IN 2050: THE MURKY CRYSTAL BALL

摘要

An today's water vocabulary, "Portfolio" is often used to add a sense of sophisticated planning to the various sources of future supply. Likewise, water management's "Silver Buckshot" offers how there is no single solution, but instead an elegant array. The modern language of water management reveals how the quest for reliable supplies is a never-ending work in progress. However, in terms of predicting the precise portfolio that will exist for many of our communities a generation from now, our crystal ball becomes murky. Water is now all about adaptive management. This requires a planning process that is flexible and iterative. This generation is setting in motion various plans and processes to respond to unprecedented challenges due to climate, regulation, deteriorating aquatic ecosystems and population growth. The next generation will run with our successes and confront new challenges.