Preparing for Future Droughts in Lima, Peru : Enhancing Lima’s Drought Management Plan to Meet Future Challenges
Lima is the capital of and largest city in Peru, with an estimated population of about 10 million people. SEDAPAL, Lima’s water utility, provides water to most of the metropolitan region. While SEDAPAL is generally able to meet the current needs of...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/827271557387444955/Preparing-for-Future-Droughts-in-Lima-Peru-Enhancing-Lima-s-Drought-Management-Plan-to-Meet-Future-Challenges http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31695 |
| Summary: | Lima is the capital of and largest city
in Peru, with an estimated population of about 10 million
people. SEDAPAL, Lima’s water utility, provides water to
most of the metropolitan region. While SEDAPAL is generally
able to meet the current needs of its customers and respond
effectively to most drought conditions that have been
experienced in the past, it faces a number of challenges
doing so in the future. A rapidly growing population and
expanding city will likely increase demand. Currently
available surface and groundwater supplies that SEDAPAL
relies on are also just adequate to meet current needs.
Changes in these supplies would challenge SEDAPAL’s ability
to manage drought conditions. This study evaluates the
performance of SEDAPAL’s current drought management plan
against future droughts and proposes augmentations. This
study takes a deeper look into the operation of the system,
the different triggers, other possible augmentations than
those related to increasing supply. The audience of this
report includes SEDAPAL and stakeholders from Lima as well
as other water managers and researchers interested in drought
management planning methodologies and case studies. This
study is novel, as it uses methods for Decision Making Under
Deep Uncertainty to explore uncertainty in near-term drought
management conditions and identify drought management
strategies robust to these uncertainties |
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