Mitigating Drought

 Mitigation Tools for States

 Water Shortage/Conservation Activities

Specific actions taken by states:

Response programs

• Promote/enforce conservation practices
• Prepare/distribute education materials
• Identify alternate water supplies
• Publish emergency publication about water
• Call town meeting/elicit community support
• Encourage use of drought-resistant vegetation
• Funds for drought-related impacts
• Develop long-range water conservation goals

Mitigation programs

• Develop and disseminate water conservation materials
• Response/conservation planning assistance
• Technical assistance
• Resource conservation and development program
• Conserve water on state lands/give shortage criteria
• Develop model water conservation program
• Provide incentives for water conservation
• Assess conservation measures
• Develop partnership with power utilities to encourage conservation
• Develop water conservation partnership with adjacent state
• Install water-saving devices
• List industrial users/suppliers for development of conservation partnership

On to Impact Sectors: Agricultural Industry
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