EPA launched on August 15 Version 3.0 of the Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT). CREAT 3.0 is now a web-based tool with a much-improved intuitive user interface compared with previous versions. To access the tool, users must register to receive a login and password. All analyses generated in CREAT belong to the user and are not accessible to other users.

The tool guides utility users through five steps: Climate awareness; scenario development; consequences and assets; adaptation planning and risk assessment. Directions for each module are provided in descriptive text and video formats. Help is available via additional videos, a resource library of additional climate threats, EPA Climate Ready Water Utility Initiative products and links to other helpful agencies and organizations with tools and expertise in climate adaptation.

The climate science and economic data used to update the tool is described in the CREAT 3.0 Methodology Guide, accessible online or from within the CREAT tool via the HELP tab. The guide explains in detail the structure of the tool and providers answers to many frequently asked questions.

In conjunction with the launch of CREAT 3.0, EPA also released an update of the CREAT Climate Scenarios Projection Map. Developed using ESRI’s Story Map Series℠ app, the tool provides easily accessible scenario-based climate change projections drawn from CREAT. EPA.