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Vilso tool

The VilSO tool supports water management organisations in identifying and assessing their climate change adaptation needs across different areas of water supply and wastewater management. The assessment can be carried out either for a single facility (such as a water intake or treatment plant) or at the scale of the entire organisation. Through a structured set of questions, the tool helps users evaluate vulnerabilities, preparedness, and resilience to climate-related risks. Based on the responses, VilSO generates a summary report highlighting key adaptation needs and recommended measures. The identified actions are intended to support and inform statutory planning processes, including contingency planning, Water Safety Plan (WSP) risk assessments, and other water supply and sewerage management plans.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Answer a structured set of questions for a single facility (e.g. water intake or treatment plant) or an entire organisation
  • Evaluate vulnerabilities, preparedness and resilience to heavy precipitation, flooding, heat, drought, wind/storm and cold waves

Output

  • A summary report highlighting key adaptation needs and recommended measures

Use it to

  • Assess a water organisation's or facility's vulnerability and preparedness for climate risks
  • Identify and prioritise adaptation measures for water supply and wastewater management
  • Feed results into statutory contingency planning and Water Safety Plan risk assessments

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

A sector-specific, structured self-assessment that connects directly to statutory planning obligations in Finland, giving its outputs a clear regulatory use rather than remaining a standalone exercise. Its underlying data has no update foreseen, and it offers no nature-based-solution, cost-benefit or just-resilience functionality.

Used in

  • Climate adaptation needs assessment for water supply and wastewater management organisations in Finland
  • Feeding into statutory contingency planning and Water Safety Plan risk assessments

Metadata

User Group
Businesses/consultantsResearchers supporting policy
Geographic coverage
Countries:
Finland
Spatial resolution

Local

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 1: Preparing the Ground for Adaptation
Step 4: Assessing and Prioritising Adaptation Options
Adaptation sectors
AgricultureBiodiversityBuildings
Climate hazards
Heavy precipitation / extreme rainfallFloodingHeat
Type of outputs
Reports and decision support
Temporality of data
Present
Language
Finish
Accessibility and usability
Moderate
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersProject-generated or processed datasetsUser-provided input data

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