Jim Schlaman, Black & Veatch’s Director of Planning and Water Resources, provides a fascinating peek behind the curtain on the latest thinking on climate change planning and adaptation.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

The current state of climate change adaption and resilience planning
Why climate change planning is not a theoretical conversation anymore
Why coastal utilities are on the front lines of climate change
How a utility can get started with climate change planning
Why a vulnerability assessment is the building block for utility planning
Why digitalization is important not just for technical planning but also for justification to the community
A trove of information Black & Veatch gleaned from its Strategic Direction report and underlying survey of utilities
Why Jim is optimistic about water utilities rising to the climate change plan

Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:

Jim’s LinkedIn page

Black & Ve