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Water Management
In partnership with the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI), Earth Economics has completed Phase 1 of a study that takes important steps towards quantifying—for the first time—the cost of excess nitrogen and phosphorus in the Mississippi. This project mapped the various pathways by which different sectors of the economy bear costs as a result of excess nutrients in the river, and identified existing data that can be used to estimate those costs.
Climate change is disrupting ecosystem services around the world. Recognizing the challenges that climate change poses to watersheds, the Water Utility Climate Alliance (WUCA) aims to enhance climate change research and improve water management decision-making to ensure that water utilities can respond effectively. To help utilities understand how climate change affects critical ecosystem services and how to adapt to predicted climate impacts on those ecosystems, Earth Economics worked with WUCA members to survey utility adaptation needs.
The Hunts Point community is proactively looking to reintroduce nature-based solutions to help reduce pressing environmental challenges, like persistent flooding, while also providing broad community benefits like access to parks and recreation, better air quality, and protection from extreme heat. Nature-based solutions have proven to be cost-effective for many resilience challenges throughout the world, often providing a high return-on-investment as measured through public and private benefits.
