Given that Reclamation is conducting multiple long-term water resources assessments at any given time within each of its regions, and given that climate change now must be addressed in such documentation efforts, it is in Reclamation’s interests to have a consistent portrayal of climate change literature within each of these documents. Further, Reclamation can alleviate the burden on project-specific scoping efforts to include development of such narratives by instead developing and maintaining region-applicable narratives. Fiscal year (FY) 2010 involved releasing the first version of “Literature Synthesis on Climate Change Implications for Reclamation’s Water Resources” (pdf). FY 2011 involves completing and releasing the first annual update of this document, once again working with current and former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) to provide content review. Also, FY 2011 involves tracking literature and initiating review and synthesis updates during 4th quarter FY 2011.
