We define an adaptation response as a water-related adaptation if the hazard is water-related  or the adaptation intervention is water-related . Adaptation responses were implemented across all water use sub-sectors assessed in this chapter . Given the overall interest in assessing adaptations that documents outcomes, we limited our analysis to a set of 359 unique articles that measure outcomes of adaptation across pre- defined outcome categories . A total of 1054 adaptation responses were documented in the 359 case studies; these were categorised into 16 categories . These adaptation responses are not always specific to long-term climate change impacts , but rather respond to changes in variability in the water cycle and specific water hazards. Adaptation to internal variability is needed to increase the resilience to projected water cycle changes because water cycle changes primarily manifest as changes in variability .
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