Sentences with phrase «many urban water»

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

It was launched in Pakistan in 1999, following a series of seminars organised by Nestlé PR company that suggested urban water supplies were contaminated and other bottled water tainted.

As I speak, as of 2015, urban water supply had been taken to a whooping 80 % of the population.

Instead, he argues, the state should pool its financial resources to tackle big issues - highways, bridges and, yes, aging urban water systems.

Comparatively, Ghana, under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for a period of seven (7) years, between 2009 and 2015, increased Urban water coverage from 58.5 % to 76 % while Rural water coverage was increased from 56.5 % to 76 %.

By close of the year 2008, they left behind water coverage of 58.5 % and 56.5 % for Urban water coverage and Rural water coverage respectively.

In the year 2001, the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) inherited water coverage of 56 % and 41 % for Urban water coverage and Rural water coverage respectively.

¬ Kwahu Ridge Water Supply project — 3.5 million gallons per day ¬ Kumawu Water Supply Project — 3.6 million gallons per day ¬ Konongo Water Supply Project — 3.5 million gallons per day ¬ Akim - Oda - Akwatia - Winneba Supply Project — 10.4 million gallons per day ¬ Wa Water Supply Project — 3.3 million gallons per day ¬ North Tongu and Adaklu Anyigbe Water Supply Scheme — 1.1 million gallons per day ¬ The US$ 170 million Urban Water Project to rehabilitate 20 water supply systems in 8 Regions

The Vice president is to start with the inauguration of the 61 km Dauran - Birnin Magaji - Kaura Namoda road, township roads and semi urban water projects in Bakura and Zurmi local government areas this month.

She currently is a principal investigator and co-lead of the Engineering Thrust of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt).

«The consequences are both an altered hydrologic regime — which has implications for farming, urban water use and the environment — as well as degradation of streamwater quality,» he says.

«Ribbed mussels could help improve urban water quality.»

Richard Luthy Director, Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure at Stanford University

However, rapidly aging infrastructure, population growth, and increasing urbanization call into question current urban water management strategies, especially in the fast - growing urban areas in Asia and Africa.

As farmers in the American West decide what, when and where to plant, and urban water managers plan for water needs in the next year, they want to know how much water their community will get from melting snow in the mountains.

The top priorities for urban water sustainability include the provision of safe drinking water, wastewater handling for public health, and protection against flooding.

We review innovative approaches in urban water management with the potential to provide locally adapted, resource - efficient alternative solutions.

The Lebanese civil war, fought in the streets of Beirut, exhibited another side of the vulnerability of urban water supplies.

She then introduced keynote speaker Marc Edwards, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and a nationally renowned expert in the chemistry and toxicity of urban water supplies in the United States.

A vision of urban water buses as rendered by students from KTH and Stockholm's University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Between 2002 and 2008 per capita urban water use — already low compared with the western U.S. — declined by 37 percent.

Urban water managers in Australia have been forced to put in place aggressive strategies to curb water use and to expand sources of new and unconventional supplies.

Urban water consumption also generates large volumes of wastewater.

To better understand the complexity of urban water systems in less developed nations, the Pacific Institute and the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition released a detailed analysis last week on the water situation in Indore.

The students, representing 45 different science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions and organizations, exhibited their creations, including state - of - the - art cancer - detection methods, an inexpensive prosthetic arm made almost entirely from a 3 - D printer, algae - based biofuels, and an innovative design for urban water management.

Ease of travel and cyberspace lets painting's avant garde exist today without urban watering holes like cafes and bars.

The triennial, presented by New Georges with 3LD and Urban Water Artists in collaboration with Guerilla Science, is having its inaugural edition this month.

For starters, read the Los Angeles Times article describing how his drought restrictions focus on urban water use while agriculture is by far the biggest water user.

In developing nations, leaks in urban water systems can waste 50 — 70 percent of the water that should be flowing through their pipes.

Recycling urban water supplies is another obvious step in countries facing acute water shortages.

Designing Cities for People (pdf) Introduction (Listen to Audio) The Ecology of Cities Redesigning Urban Transport The Return of Bicycles Reducing Urban Water Use Farming in the City Upgrading Squatter Settlements Cities for People Chapter 6 Data (xls)(pdf)(highlights)

by Kristina Donnelly, Research Associate August 4, 2015 In response to the Executive Order Governor Brown issued in April, the State Water Resources Control Board adopted an emergency regulation requiring 25 % savings in urban water use across the state, with a goal of saving 1.2 million acre - feet over a nine - month period.

Newsha K. Ajami Director, Urban Water Policy with Stanford University's Water in the West and NSF - ReNUWIt Initiatives

David My name is Wayne Lusvardi and I worked in a non-engineering capacity for California's largest urban water district for 20 years and conducted valuation estimates of probable property damage loss in the even of a breach of any of its dams or dikes for both that agency and Lloyd's of London insurance underwriters.

I worked for the largest urban water district in California.

This technical document aims to present the impacts of climate change upon urban water, particularly upon the performance of the urban water supply, wastewater and storm water infrastructure, through compiling existing studies on climate change and water resources.

This is undertaken with special attention to: i) short food chain delivery, ii) urban water, nutrient and waste management and recycling, iii) multifunctional land use, and iv) social innovation and institutional interaction in (intra - and peri) urban areas.

The findings of this vulnerability assessment can be used to develop Integrated Urban Water Management planning in the country.

Urban Water Management Plan (2015) presents the latest information on the San Francisco Public Utility Commission's service areas, Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System and other water systems operated by the SFPUC, system supplies and demands, water supply reliability, Water Conservation Act of 2009 compliance, water shortage contingency planning, and demand management.

I am an award winning designer of «integrated urban water supplies» — integrating stormwater management, water supply sources and sewage treatment and recycling to meet human needs efficiently while conserving downstream environments.

Industries are moving faster than cities, but the technologies they are developing can also be used in urban water recycling.

This Forum will have meetings of Mayors from megacities who will make strong commitments to deal with water in their cities, through the Istanbul Urban Water Consensus.

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

In my own work, I have observed urban water managers around the country experimenting with incentives to promote water - conscious landscaping alternatives, rebates for lower water use appliances, better leak detection systems, and re-use systems.

Our region has seen some successful innovation in water management in many urban water systems and even the West's most complex institutions for governing water such as those in place for the Colorado River.

More than 40 % of all urban water suppliers reduced their water use by 30 % or more.

The loss of glaciers, which are the source for as much as 50 percent of the water in the upper Amazon, could have a significant impact on agriculture and urban water supplies as well as the Amazon rainforest.

Lim, S., Suh, S., Kim, J., Park, H.S., 2010: Urban Water Infrastructure Optimization to Reduce Environmental Impacts and Costs, Journal of Environmental Management, 91, 630 — 637.

The concomitant monitoring of the complex of urban water system elements makes it possible to grasp the entirety of relations among the various components of the urban water cycle and so develop a holistic approach to solving urban water problems.

More than that the objective is to integrate management of the urban water cycle — sewage treatment and effluent reuse, stormwater treatment and recycling and potable water supply to maximize utility, efficiency, cost effectiveness and ecological sustainability — for which I have won awards.