The major floods that occurred in Queensland in January 2011 are a reminder of the vulnerability to extreme events of many Queensland cities and regional centres. Climate projections suggest that such events will continue to occur in future decades. Queensland Urban Utilities, the provider of water and wastewater services to Brisbane, suffered extensive outages during the January 2011 event. In response, the organisation undertook a substantial climate-flood resilience and adaptation initiative that included a major risk assessment study, and subsequent capital works programme that is presently being delivered. This represents one of the largest climate adaptation programmes in Queensland.