We are continuing our focus on catastrophic impacts on communities through a scenario-based exercise now titled Exercise Dry Thunder. You can register here and please do share this opportunity across your networks. 

The event will open with a short briefing from Dr Villo Lelkes from DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) to help us frame the exercise, covering current water resilience, risks, water adaptation and where the water cycle is heading. 

We will then launch into small breakouts to begin Exercise Dry Thunder, working through a scenario involving relentless heat, critically low water reserves and a sudden failure in a water treatment system.

We will close the call with a plenary that helps us debrief and summarise what we have heard, identify actions and hear expert reflections from Villo at DEFRA and Ed Jarvis from the Strategic Adaptation for Emergency Resilience (SAFER) campaign team, part of the Climate Majority Project. 

The exercise will help attendees test how we coordinate, prioritise and protect communities under extreme pressure, while deepening our understanding of partner capabilities, real-life scenarios and how we can support those most at risk.