Question 108: Dams and reservoirs for climate change adaptation

1. Dams for Pumped Storage: specific features, design, examples of implementation

2. Off-river dams for water storage and flood protection

3. Offshore dams and tidal power plants

4. Dams for recharge of aquifers and other new concepts

5. Floating solar on dam reservoirs - opportunities and risks

Question Officers			Secretary
President	Vice-President	General Reporter
Jia Jinsheng (China)	Emma Hagner (Sweden)	Luc Deroo (France)	Wang Xinhuai (China)

Question 109: Dams and levees fit for the future

1. Management of an aging portfolio of dams in terms of operation, maintenance and rehabilitation, including risk-based approaches

2. Safety during construction and rehabilitation

3. Special case for small dams and levees

4. Impact of contracting practices on dam safety (e.g. private sector involvement, EPC contracts)

5. Increasingly difficult sites - dams and their new challenges

6. Need for global capacity building

Question Officers			Secretary
President	Vice-President	General Reporter
Jean-Pierre Tournier (Canada)	Danie Badenhorst (South-Africa)	Li Shuguang (China)	Xiao Te (China)

Question 110: Safety of dams and levees facing extreme hydrological events

1. Assessment of extreme events (e.g. floods, droughts, typhoons/hurricanes, glacial lake outburst floods) in the context of climate change, accounting for uncertainty

2. Assessment for the safety of structures for extreme floods; management options(e.g. increasing dam height, spillway capacity, reservoir operation)

3. Flood forecasting, hydraulic management of multiple projects within river systems

4. Reassessment of the flood data and mitigation e.g. fuse devices, overflow resistance, controlled breach formation, warning and evacuation, crisis and emergency management

Question Officers			Secretary
President	Vice-President	General Reporter
Lisa Bensasson (Greece)	Xu Zeping (China)	Enrique Cifres (Spain)	Wang Jinting (Spain)

Question 111: Earthquake performance and safety of dams

1. Static, seismic and post-seismic monitoring of dams

2. Feedback from earthquake failures, including tailings dams and levees

3. Importance of multiple features of earthquake hazard (e.g. ground shaking, surface fault movements, mass movements)

4. Seismic design and performance criteria for dam structure, reservoir rim and impacted area

5. Earthquake safety evaluation of all types of dams and safety-critical elements (e.g. spillways, low-level outlets)

Question Officers			Secretary
President	Vice-President	General Reporter
Martin Wieland (Switzerland)	Chen Guanfu (China)	Trevor Matuschka (New Zealand)	Wang Haibo (China)