Sentences with phrase «improve urban water»

«Ribbed mussels could help improve urban water quality.»

The grants will fund innovative programs that improve urban water quality, enhance storm water management and protect and restore urban waterways.

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This funding will help us showcase how LID protects land and water resources, and new and improved facilities at Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center & Wildlife Sanctuary will help illustrate how LID techniques can help with water management in an urban environment.

They also called for better water supply, drainage and waste treatment and the rehabilitation of urban rivers that could help improve sustainability and lifestyle.

This so - called urban health advantage is usually attributed to better access to health care and improved overall infrastructure, such as clean water, safety and education.But many of the globe's cities are already bursting and actually offer a far worse quality of life to those on the lower end of the income spectrum, whose plights can get overshadowed in large - scale statistics.

«If trees were to be established throughout their potential cover area, they would serve to filter air and water pollutants and reduce building energy use, and improve human well - being while providing habitat and resources for other species in the urban area.»

Urban areas can improve the planet as well as people's lives if we design them to be much more resourceful with energy, water, food and minerals

According to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Report on global progress against the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on water and sanitation, more than half of the global population lives in cities, and urban areas are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation than rural ones.

A better approach would be to foster collaborative projects aimed at resilient urban design, improved water treatment and efficiency (to cut demand for groundwater pumping) and landscape management in fast - growing delta cities and nearby regions.

However, urban trees can be a vexed issue for some councils; they use water, can be costly to maintain, can damage utilities and property, and can worsen air quality instead of improving it.

It also stresses that adaptation strategies need to be wide ranging covering issues such as urban planning, improved water storage networks and improved water efficiency in sectors such as agriculture.

Green roofs reduce stormwater runoff, filter out water and air pollutants, moderate the urban heat - island effect, add green space to the built environment, shade and insulate rooftops to improve buildings» thermal performance (thereby reducing energy use and costs), and extend the service life of structural roof systems.

Health and education outcomes can be best improved through economic development and this results in reduced population pressure, as well as providing resources for agricultural soil conservation and increased organic content, for conservation and restoration of ecosystems and for «water sensitive urban design».

Many thanks to the City of Portland, Ecotrust, the Willamette Partnership and the Urban Greenspaces Institute for helping to pull it together and even more so, for their ongoing work pioneering natural infrastructure innovations that are saving money, beautifying communities, improving air and water quality, and capturing carbon.

The Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan provides a roadmap for mitigating flood risk, limiting subsidence, and improving the quality of wWater Plan provides a roadmap for mitigating flood risk, limiting subsidence, and improving the quality of waterwater.

Examples of actions with co-benefits include (i) improved energy efficiency and cleaner energy sources, leading to reduced emissions of health - damaging climate - altering air pollutants; (ii) reduced energy and water consumption in urban areas through greening cities and recycling water; (iii) sustainable agriculture and forestry; and (iv) protection of ecosystems for carbon storage and other ecosystem services.»

more efficient community use of water, land, forests and other natural resources, improving access and reducing emissions (e.g., conservation of water in urban areas reduces energy used in moving and heating water);

Even as Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape designs continue to naturally ease urban flooding and improve air and water quality on our cities, just as he imagined they would, few urban dwellers see his works as anything more than ornamental wonders and respite from the harder urban world.

* Make solar energy economical * Provide energy from fusion * Develop carbon sequestration methods * Manage the nitrogen cycle * Provide access to clean water * Restore and improve urban infrastructure * Advance health informatics * Engineer better medicines * Reverse - engineer the brain * Prevent nuclear terror * Secure cyberspace * Enhance virtual reality * Advance personalized learning * Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

But recently, proposals for new dams have emerged, mostly in the name of improving water supplies strained by urban growth, a desire to irrigate more cropland, or adapting to expected changes in precipitation patterns accompanying climate change.

Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouUrban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban water resources.

«If trees were to be established throughout their potential cover area, they would serve to filter air and water pollutants and reduce building energy use, and improve human well - being while providing habitat and resources for other species in the urban area.»

Urban areas can improve the planet as well as people's lives if they become much more resourceful with energy, water, food and minerals

Urban areas can improve the planet as well as people's lives if they become much more resourceful with energy, water, food and minerals LEARN MORE

The primary purpose is to obtain environmental benefits including intercepting and reducing storm water runoff, improving building thermal performance and energy consumption, and reducing the urban heat island effect.

Shoemaker Green not only offers an open space of lawns, tree - lined walkways, and sitting areas but will also improve water quality and minimize runoff, reduce the effect of the urban heat island by greening large paved areas, restore biomass on site, increase local biodiversity, and improve the overall environment for the community.