Helping California companies adapt to drought, flood, climate change: Waterplan scientist Nick Silverman

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As the state’s water supply falters because of too much consumption and not enough replenishment amid climate change and long-term drought, companies are paying increased attention to water, …

, a program known as GRACE. Variations in the relative positions of the program’s pair of satellites reflect gravity’s pull, and the amount of pull can be analyzed to provide information about where water, including snow and ice, lies on and under the earth. Waterplan, headquartered in San Francisco and launched in 2020, has analyzed every watershed on Earth.

Satellite data, supplemented with information from other sources including client companies, allows Waterplan to calculate a firm’s risks related to water supply, water quality, and flooding, along with hazards associated with regulation and corporate reputation. The Bay Area News Group asked Silverman about Waterplan’s work. His comments have been edited for length and clarity.Every type of business. It’s more like, ‘Is it direct or indirect?’ Maybe it’s a supply chain kind of issue, where it’s not your water risk where you’re located but it’s that supply chain: Where do you get your products from? We use water in so many different ways, we use if for cooling in data centers, we use it for energy generation. And of course we use it in agriculture.

 

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