Climate Change Best Management Practices newsletters

Climate change BMP newslettersIAN and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources published these newsletters on the ways to best preserve Maryland's water supply and aquatic ecosystems with the increasingly variable weather patterns associated with climate change. Issues discussed include uncertain access to drinking water, salt water intrusion, flooding, property damage, changes in precipitation, temperature, tropical storms, and human activity. Human development and pollution have degraded the natural resilience of aquatic systems, leaving them more vulnerable to climate change and extreme events. Best Management Practices (BMPs) should be sited and designed with climate change impacts in mind.