Contamination of water wells due to industrial and agricultural pollutants will also have an adverse effect

   Water quality will become a concern for some cities. Changes in rainfall patterns may change the watershed, affecting quality

   Water quality on the decline is a major issue

   Higher temperatures reduce the amount of water stored in mountain snowfields. They also dry out the soil, which then soaks up more water, reducing the recharge of underground aquifers. The result could be reductions in available water for drinking, household use and industry

   Droughts on the rise. Meanwhile, some regions will receive less rainfall than usual, leading to droughts more severe than in the past.

   Increased flooding will affect hundreds of millions of people who live close to coastlines, flood plains and deltas

   Better planning, decision-making, predicting and resource allocation all lead to money saved for public safety agency operations budgets

   All of the applications of analytics discussed in this section deliver tangible operational savings.

   Full situational awareness allows cities to allocate their resources more efficiently for incident response and management.

   Analytics provide can lead to better public safety planning and decision-making by projecting trends and predicting outcomes to the point that they can even prevent some crimes from occurring