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E.P.A. Offers $1.8 Million in Urban Green Infrastructure Grants

December 22, 2011 by The Dirt ASLA
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) is offering up to $1.8 million in new grants for urban green infrastructure projects that both improve water quality and support community revitalization. Projects that support the restoration of canals, rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers, estuaries, bays and... [read more]

Why Green Infrastructure Makes Cities Awesome

October 11, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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      The American Society of Landscape Architects has just released a massive database of 479 case studies describing the successful application of ”green infrastructure” techniques that collect and process rainwater naturally before it flows into receiving waterways as polluted runoff.  The database demonstrates... [read more]

Phoenix: America’s Desert Metropolis

August 16, 2011 by Tazmine Loomans
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Today’s post is by contributing writer Will Novak. One of the most exciting things about being a Phoenician is being from a place that looks unlike any other major City in the United States. Very few large American cities are in deserts and only two, Phoenix and Tucson, reside in the world’s most beautiful desert, the Sonoran.... [read more]

Philadelphia Takes a Revolutionary Approach to Stormwater

August 9, 2011 by This Big City
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‘Green City, Clean Waters’ will not only reduce water pollution but transform much of the city’s infrastructure, making it something of a sustainable idyll. The $2 billion, 25-year project was agreed by the Philadelphia Water Department and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in June. [read more]

Rainwater Approved As Water Source in Northwest

August 3, 2011 by Douglas Reiser
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Rainwater harvesting is permitted in parts of King County (Photo: grifray on Flickr)   Last week, the King County Board of Health approved a measure that will permit many in the area to use rainwater as the sole water source in their home. Yes, that means that rainwater can serve to flush your toilet and wash down your supper. So,... [read more]

Design Competition Seeks New Models That Rethink Water Use in Face of Climate Change

July 20, 2011 by The Dirt ASLA
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Drylands Design, a new ideas competition sponsored by the California Architectural Foundation in partnership with the Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University and the AIACC Academy for Emerging Professionals and created in honor of architect William Turnbull, is seeking submissions for “retrofitting the American West.” The goal... [read more]

Water and Sanitation in Ecuador

November 26, 2009 by the polis blog
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Water and sanitation has been recognized by all international development agencies as one of the main challenges in the developing world. Indeed, it is now explicitly assumed by all that the lack of adequate water and sanitation is a main contributor to the perpetuation of poverty. This problem affects directly one third of the world’s... [read more]

Water: The Neglected Resource

November 9, 2009 by Tyler Caine
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Using over 1,300 gallons per day per capita, many Americans have been lulled into the misconception that we do not have to worry about our water supply. We are paying a great deal of attention to our resources for energy: coal, oil, natural gas. Debates in the Climate Bill and the upcoming Environmental Summit in Copenhagen have... [read more]

Water: America's Infrastructure Part 1

September 30, 2009 by Robert Stockham
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One of the world’s truly most precious resource is water. While we are busy flushing most of our drinkable water down the toilet, or using thousands of gallons on our lawns, some people do not even have access to this most basic necessity. What is really scary is the amount that is being lost every single day in our cities that few... [read more]

Smarter Water

July 7, 2009 by Jack Mason
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Smarter Water: For those of us living in developed nations, our water infrastructure is many decades old. In fact, in some places it is centuries old.  As our demand for water is increasing, we need to modernize the existing infrastructure.  One way to do that is to apply information technology. Today’s water management... [read more]

Are River Basin Councils the Right Model of Water and Wastewater Governance in Mexico?

May 5, 2009 by Raul Pacheco-Vega
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This is the abstract for my water policy talk. I’ve submitted it to the School of Public Administration at University of Victoria to see if they’re interested, although I’m happy to tailor it for other audiences. Are River Basin Councils the Right Model of Water and Wastewater Governance in Mexico? Lessons from a Case Study in the... [read more]

Just Add Water

April 24, 2009 by Geoff Manaugh
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[Image: EDAW's "If I could design London, I would... just add water"; view larger!].Having been interested in the riverine nature of London for years now – not many people realize that it's a city of canals – when I stumbled on a poster produced by EDAW for an exhibition last summer called "If I could design London I would...," I... [read more]