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Standard engineering practices aim to provide a reliable engineering design that allows water and wastewater pipeline tolerate standard loading conditions. Reliability threats such as construction and maintenance errors, cyclic fatigue, transient pressures, corrosion control, and extreme loading conditions, remain a challenge for pipeline owners. It is becoming increasingly apparent that unavoidable failures are occurring due to the magnitude and intensity of wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and extreme weather conditions; thereby, emphasizing the need for a resilient and sustainable performance-based engineering practice to ensure that impacts are minimized on pipelines, recovery is quick, and functionality is maintained in the long term while considering the consequences for society, the economy, and the environment. In this presentation, we will define pipeline resilience, and discuss design, construction, and asset management strategies for balancing engineering design practices that ensure the reliability, resilience, and sustainability of future water and wastewater pipelines. This is would help us navigate a future full of environmental, social, and economic uncertainties.