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Following the prolonged drought at the end of the 1980s in the south e
ast of the UK, Anglian Water undertook (a) to review the reliable yiel
ds of their resource systems and (b) to investigate the potential risk
s associated with alternative future investment programmes. One of the
major identifiable risks is climate Change, and there is a clear need
to understand how different scenarios of climate change could affect
the reliable output of existing sources, and thereby affect investment
programmes. This paper highlights the approach which was adopted to m
odel climate change impacts on rainfall, and on the limitations which
exist for this type of assessment.