Have you ever wondered — or worried — how much water will be flowing from the San Marcos Springs in the next 10 years? 20 years? 50 years? Researchers at the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment want to create a public dashboard that can answer those questions.
“One goal is that when this projects over, anybody in the state can bring up our dashboard and bring up their community and see what climate change is going to do to their water resources,” said Robert Mace, executive director of the Meadows Center. “That becomes valuable for a community to understand what their future risk looks like. Because right now, with the water planning process, for the most part, that risk is not built in.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, the Austin Democrat who petitioned Congress for the funds, said tools like this one can help people combat what’s called"climate grief," a term that refers to the collective fear and anxiety around climate-induced disasters. By creating hyperlocal climate projections, policymakers and community leaders can have the resources they need to address climate change and manage water resources sustainably, the congressman said.
You mean normal weather? Yeah don't care. You are all out of touch.