The Water Center at Penn helped celebrate Climate Week by hosting a webinar entitled From New York to Philadelphia: Expert Perspectives on Climate Change Impacts to Water Systems in the Delaware River Basin. 

Panelists were DRBC’s Deputy Executive Director Kristen Bowman Kavanagh, P.E., liaison to the Commission's Advisory Committee on Climate Change (ACCC), as well as ACCC members Julia Rockwell, Philadelphia Water Department, and Alan Cohn, New York City Department of Environmental Protection. 

The panel was moderated by ACCC Chair Howard Neukrug, The Water Center at Penn.

Each panelist gave a short presentation that provided an overview of his or her agency and what efforts are currently underway related to climate change impacts. 

Afterwards, they shared their perspectives on how agencies can better address the unique vulnerabilties of and improve collaboration with our underserved communities.

The recording can be viewed below: