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in flow your getting more inflows. the system is sincetive to climate. the second important point ere is, this whole project. assessing the risk, assuming we operate the system the . w ulnabre we ot unr ngitions alough iim atn knowbut w vuerle would be iwe halebi o an
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thk th's a problem. . manager's must use current tools balso look at future
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ri queson here. >>i i'm sow workolsions dungg emissi we haverio we're also ery a
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aractezation f precipitation isnot nlike today. not rain vers sno but he totawater vole s sill looking a llike the mer climate. >> let me ta acracat this. 's a great questi. its the arrier that a lot o water age face. on the,pa leo cmate, side e te past will e me deal with floods ad rough properly eal witthem if we had abetter since of th rom rin i he
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1920s we wou probly make different assumptions onthe corado river maybe wewould not but was informatiow did not have about climattat wuld have changed potentiay a desion th watemanag's and liticians had. going nto he few uh-uhture, mager's and planrs haa lot of tools for dealing with these kinds of variabilities thatwe aveto fac paicarly, whatwe're suggesting isnot to do anything different but include abroader rao future climas in our plan. that maybe degninothing, if o buiing from scratch ffertly tn if there water climate change. mntto ask aurine,she
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deribethe - well, what want to know is are they vaing the desali, no one f hem ie seen account for rising sea level example. it might be onfor some noall ofthem. are they e evaluated derhigher teature scenarios. e thyield numbers being evaluated that. are the ones ur existing scenars d i'd like to kw thatand if te aswer is, no, it ought tbe. it will eect the enoc decisis made and ultimately investments in part frastructure
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we may choose not to d many thgs differently, nd accept higher level of risk, but i would argue that i we're smart we will do things diffy to reduce xposure for the future just ecause it caout yesterday. the department of ater resources has done a nmberof runs wh reservoirs in nflows in te sierraarea anit's 0 percenof nflows likely from toy. the worst case i reduio of 19 ercent abig reduction. upstreama, fsom, yesterday it was ike t billion dar to build th eserir a
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that's great examplefor water managers to tke wha ismns. it's clearly amistakes ild something thawater magers assume theycan pture mighliterally bege sel cades. >> o the nt t we can't assume tt the pst islike e future,um...you mentioned hydrauc models. i'm wonderg if there's any practical models and i'll ake the point wi insance industries when hey s rate are required tusa essage that factors the past and not the ture. theres the ew modelthat he insurance industrwantsto use and they've all been modified since-katrina ad they have
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three mols but ty ave now vised tir catastrophe model to iorporate climate sience anof course, iurance mpanies want to be able t go by hose models nd i'm wondering if suchpractical tools are being dvelopefr watemanageme. >> llthe sht nswer i absolutely, ye the umm itatn ri in a thecn l. a lt ftis- ihpeingswn tmein ab s kiwi or
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