Summer Wave: Reflections: On the Meaning of Water Resilience

Resilience seems to have replaced security in discussions of water availability. Because the term was appearing everywhere, I started thinking about the definition of resilience even before we titled the WRRC 2021 Annual Conference “Tribal Water Resilience in a Changing Environment.” A Google search yielded the following definition from Oxford Languages: “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” This definition was not satisfying. It only triggered additional questions: What does it mean to recover and what is the time dimension for quickly?

 

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