
Paulina Concha LarrauriColumbia University | CU · Columbia Water Center
Paulina Concha Larrauri
Master of Engineering
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Dam failure can cause extraordinary flooding. Water and wastewater treatment plants, electricity generation facilities, bridges, highways, population centers, and other dams often lie downstream of a dam. If poorly maintained, aging dams can be overtopped by extreme rainfall events, and long-term loss of critical infrastructure services for many co...
Water risks, such as scarcity, floods, or pollution, are receiving an increased attention by corporations and the financial community for the physical, regulatory, and reputational risks that they embed. Frameworks, metrics, and datasets are necessary to quantify water risks and assess their potential impacts. In this chapter, we describe the fast-...
Extreme weather events can leave a lasting impact on financial markets and our society; however, the probability of their occurrence and the ensuing damage is rarely quantified. In this chapter, we focus on the mining sector as a case study on how a data-driven analysis of extreme events related to water can be applied across industries. We examine...
Frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) is a commodity traded in the International Commodity Exchange. The FCOJ future price volatility is high because the world's orange production is concentrated in a few places, which results in extreme sensitivity to weather and disease. Most of the oranges produced in the United States are from Florida. The Un...
Frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) is a commodity traded in the International Commodity Exchange. The FCOJ future price volatility is high because the world's orange production is concentrated in a few places, which results in extreme sensitivity to weather and disease. Most of the oranges produced in the United States are from Florida. The Un...
Aging dams and levees, in combination with an increasing frequency of climate extremes pose an unprecedented risk to communities around the world. The financial risk associated with the failure of such assets is unmapped, due in part to the complexity of the chain of events triggered by the failure of a major dam or levee, and of the difficulty of...
We assess the potential financial benefits of rooftop rainwater harvesting (RWH) in Mexico City from the perspective of property owners and entrepreneurs. A bottom‐up approach was followed by evaluating RWH at individual buildings and aggregating the results to a borough/city level. We consider sector‐specific water demands, potable and nonpotable...
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) has been promoted as water source in many developing countries for more than thirty years. NGOs and foundations have contributed significantly to the implementation of RWH systems but the sustainability of these interventions is an issue. The main causes attributed to the poor long-term performance of RWH programs are ins...
Water is a critical resource for mining operations. Yet, often the risks associated with its temporal and spatial variability and the shared nature of water are not adequately incorporated in decision processes. There are many recent examples of significant revenue losses associated with production disruption, project delays, and asset stranding re...
Water risk management is a ubiquitous challenge faced by stakeholders in the water or agricultural sector. We present a methodological framework for forecasting water storage requirements and present an application of this methodology to risk assessment in India. The application focused on forecasting crop water stress for potatoes grown during the...
Water risk management is perhaps the most ubiquitous challenge a stakeholder in the water or agricultural sector faces. We present a methodological framework for forecasting water storage requirements and present an application of this methodology to risk assessment in India. The application focused on forecasting crop water stress for potatoes gro...
This paper presents a statistical model to estimate the volume of released tailings (VF) and the maximum distance travelled by the tailings (Dmax) in the event of a tailings dam failure, based on physical parameters of the dams. The dataset of historical tailings dam failures is updated from the one used by Rico et al., (Floods from tailings dam fa...
Roof rainwater harvesting (RWH) has the potential to augment water supplies for urban and suburban uses throughout the United States (U.S.). Studies of the performance of RWH at the building and city scales in the U.S. are available, but a countrywide overview of the potential performance of RWH at the county scale has not been done before. Three a...