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What is the future of water storage?

What the Future Has in Store: A New Paradigm for Water Storage calls for developing and driving multi-sectoral solutions to the water storage gap, taking approaches that integrate needs and opportunities across the whole system, including natural, built, and hybrid storage, to support many instead of few, for generations to come.

Can large-scale water storage improve water security?

It also highlights good practices and lessons learned from past experiences and explores emerging opportunities for water storage schemes to enhance water, energy and food security in the future. Large-scale water storage supports economic development, builds water security and buffers against increasing rainfall variability.

Why is water storage important?

• Water storage provides three major services: improving the availability of water; reducing the impacts of floods; and regulating water flows to support energy, transportation, and other sectors. • At the same time, the regulation provided by storage can produce clean energy, needed to mitigate climate change.

Should water storage be built on farmlands?

Increased water storage on farmlands would be a relatively short-term solution compared to building water storage areas. On the other hand, water storage on farmlands could be a more favorable option if funds for storage reservoirs and land purchases are not readily available.

Why do we need water storage and hydropower systems?

Large-scale water storage supports economic development, builds water security and buffers against increasing rainfall variability. Well-designed water storage and hydropower systems can enhance both climate change adaptation and mitigation, but such systems must also plan for a more extreme and variable climate.

Could increased water tables be a permanent solution?

Most importantly, raising the water tables on agricultural lands for increased water storage could not be a permanent solution. Increased water tables on agricultural lands could only be maintained for about 100 years on average (minimum of 0 years to a maximum of 367 years).