The World Bank has produced this report because we recognize that many of our clients around the world are in unprecedented situations, struggling to cope with water-related disasters and grappling with how to develop, operate, and maintain more—and more resilient—water services. Climate change, twinned with a growing water storage gap, means traditional approaches to water storage must evolve. In developing our understanding of what a twenty-first century approach to freshwater storage could look like, the Bank reflected on its own many decades of experience with natural and built water infrastructure, searched the world for examples of water storage solutions that are not otherwise accessible to water practitioners focused on their local regions in isolation, and looked at the variety of new science and tools that could be brought to bear to achieve results.
Read more and download the book (external link): https://reliefweb.int/report/world/what-future-has-store-new-paradigm-water-storage
