Adaptation Measures
Human Health
Water Quality
Source water protection a component of urban planning
Enforceable drinking water standards
Heat Stress
Design buildings for better, natural cooling
Heat stress warning systems; heat contingency plans
Education on actions to take during a heat wave focus on most vulnerable populations
Air Quality
Improve reduction of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and precursors for ground-level ozone
Regulate and monitor emissions from automobiles, buses, and trucks
Develop smog plans
Improve early warning systems for air quality
Increase use of mass transit
Modify building codes to design cooler buildings
Develop more Ňnon-polluting energy sources
Disease and
Improve measures to identify and address vector-borne and rodent-borne disease through
Illness
monitoring and surveillance
Develop and institute insect and pest controls
Create an index (similar to the UV index) for climate-related health conditions
Develop heath care system emergency plans (extreme events and disease outbreaks)
Reduce human exposure by identifying risk areas or risk behaviours
Develop vaccines and improve protection for U.S. and Canadian travelers to disease-endemic areas
Remove standing water (e.g. in parks and fountains)
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