State Water Agency Practices for Climate Adaptation

The compilation of practices featured below highlight some of the innovative actions or planning efforts by various state water management agencies that help address a changing climate. Showcasing a diverse array of climate adaptation related practices in several programmatic areas and geographic locations around the country can help encourage the adoption of useful models across state agencies.

State	Title of State Practice	Topic Area
AZ	Ensuring Water Supply Sustainability: Arizona Department of Water Resources' Drought and Water Supply Planning (pdf)	Drinking Water, Water Supply Planning, Water Conservation, Drought
AZ	Arizona Uses Water Infrastructure Finance Authority to Provide Funding for Infrastructure Projects that Address Climate Impacts (pdf)	Water Supply Planning, Water Conservation, Resource Efficiency, Green Infrastructure, Funding
CA	California Integrated Assessment of Watershed Health (pdf)	Monitoring and Assessment
CA	California "Save Our Water" Conservation Education Program (pdf)	Water Conservation
CO	Using Colorado WaterWise to Achieve Water Efficiency in a Changing Climate (pdf)	Water Conservation
CO	Planning for Impacts of Climate Change on Colorado's Water Supply (pdf)	Water Supply Planning, Water Conservation, Drought, Modeling/Research
IL	Planning for Climate Variability: Illinois State Water Survey and Statewide Framework for Drought and Water Supply Planning (pdf)	Water Supply Planning
MA	Maintaining Integrity of River and Stream Ecosystems with Massachusetts River and Stream Continuity Partnership (pdf)	Ecosystem Connectivity, Monitoring and Assessment
MD	Conserving Maryland's Wetlands in a Changing Climate using Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (pdf)	Wetlands
MD	Maryland Supplements Long Term Water Supply Planning Requirements with "Message on Climate Change" (pdf)	Water Supply Planning
MN	Minnesota's Stormwater Manual and Design Standards Address Climate Change Adaptation (pdf)	Green Infrastructure/ Stormwater
MN	Long-term Monitoring to Help Detect Climate Variability in Minnesota (pdf)	Monitoring and Assessment, Wetlands, Modeling/Research, Water Quality Standards
NH	New Hampshire Considers Climate Change in Wetlands Program Plan and Review Process (pdf)	Wetlands
NH	New Hampshire Drinking Water Program's Climate Change Resilience Plan (pdf)	Water Supply Planning, Drinking Water, Water Quality Standards
NM	Wetland Protection and Beaver Habitat Restoration as Climate Adaptation Tools in New Mexico (pdf)	Wetlands, Monitoring, and Assessment
OR	Oregon Builds Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change with Thermal Refugia and Temperature Standard (pdf)	Water Quality Standards, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, Total Maximum Daily Loads
OR	Oregon's Strategy to Build Capacity and Address Harmful Algal Blooms in a Changing Climate (pdf)	Drinking Water, Monitoring and Assessment, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, Total Maximum Daily Loads, Water Quality Standards
WA	Washington's Integrated Plan to Create Partnerships and Diversify Funding for Climate Adaptation (pdf)	Water Supply Planning, Water Conservation, Integrated Water Resource Management