Recommendations for building resilience in the water sector
The primer presents 17 recommendations to give resilience adoption a boost. These suggestions were inspired by 19 interviews with water sector operators and stakeholders and consideration of policy frameworks, advocacy bodies and academic reports.
Below, Tracy Hatton, is interviewed by the Resilience Shift about the importance of water resilience.

Project overview
This practical, industry-specific primer identifies:
- the current best practices by leading organisations that embed resilience into their decision-making,
- the incentives that are currently available for driving resilience, but are not capitalized upon due to lack of awareness of their existence, and
- the future directions for how to scale and augment the current menu of incentives.
Key contact
Tracy Hatton
Principal Consultant
Resilient Organisations Ltd
e : tracy.hatton@resorgs.org.nz
Project team
Tracy Hatton
Resilient Organisations
Ellie Kay
Resilient Organisations
Charlotte Brown
Resilient Organisations
Daniel Aldrich
Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, at Northeastern University. USA
Nader Naderpajouh
RMIT, Australia
Our funders
This work has been funded by The Resilience Shift.
Project output
Resilience primer: Potable water
Tracy Hatton, Ellie Kay, Nader Naderpajouh, Daniel Aldrich
Published by the Resilience Shift in collaboration with Resilient Organisations, March 2019.