Sentences with phrase «urban waste water»

Drugs and chemicals that are flushed down toilets and drains have long been reported in urban waste water and the streams into which it flows.

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Government has also launched what it calls the Integrated Urban Environmental Sanitation Master Plan (IUESMP), to complement all existing strategies in the sanitation, drainage and water management sub-sectors to holistically deal with sanitation and waste.

CHF's poverty map for Sekondi — Takoradi, the country's third - largest urban area, takes into account access to housing; room and housing density levels; solid - waste services; sanitation and water; and income, says Ishmael Adams, acting country director for CHF in Ghana.

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

«The roofscapes of our cities are the last urban frontier — from 15 percent to 35 percent of the total land area — and the green roof industry can turn these wasted spaces into a force for cleaner air, cleaner water, energy savings, cooling, beauty and recreation,» he says.

He describes how urban centers can help us reduce and reuse waste heat, water and materials, creating revenue and lowering costs.

«Forty - two per cent of America's major urban highways are congested, and three - quarters of waste - water systems need pipe repair.

The big risks were listed as climate change, water scarcity, vast urban waste, food insecurity, public heath burdens, economic inequality, and demographic cliffs.

Over his career, Commoner worked on nuclear fallout, pesticides, water contamination, air pollution, toxic metals, the petrochemical industry, population, energy and nuclear power, urban waste disposal, dioxin, recycling, and all manner of other environmental issues.

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

In 14 chapters experts provide a «state of the art» of the knowledge and experience gained since the mid nineties of the past century in different types of urban agriculture (horticulture, forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculture.

Asia's urban population is set to soar from 1.9 billion in 2011 to 3.3 billion by 2050, a shift that is expected to place considerable strain on the continent's physical infrastructure — roads, energy, food and water resources, waste management capabilities — as well as the ability of leaders to manage this urbanisation effectively.

The water quality at our beaches is threatened by pollution from urban and agricultural runoff, sewage spills and overflows, and waste discharged into the ocean by industry, sewage treatment plants and power plants.

The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.

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.

This proposes expansion of the CDM's Programme of Activities approach to enable aggregation of city - based GHG mitigation reductions broadly covered by five sectors: energy, transport, solid waste, water and wastewater, and urban forestry.

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Input production and delivery may include activities like the collection and composting of urban wastes, production of organic pesticides, fabrication of tools, delivery of water, buying and bringing of chemical fertilisers, etc.).

The Accra working group on urban agriculture, with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly as a member, has drafted revised by laws on the use of waste water and support an awareness campaign on health risk minimisation strategies in production and marketing (Farm to Fork) of urban vegetables.

Water is also polluted by industrial and urban waste.

He works with students, faculty and administration to change the culture of the institution to help incorporate sustainable practices by reducing building energy use, increasing water efficiency, air quality programs, waste reduction, urban agriculture, social justice, and green purchasing to name a few.

The China - U.S. Partnership for Sustainable Development is currently working to transform several urban cores into living systems that will process waste water, leverage opportunities for renewable energy, and create new green spaces for public use.

- this isn't just growing vegetables, it is an urban battery, taking waste and solar energy and producing food, clean water and electricity.

We do go on about the urban infrastructure that is being wasted in rustbelt cities on the Great Lakes or the Erie Canal, that have water, highways and wonderful buildings that can be repurposed.

He works at a major search engine company — assisting with LEED certification, grey water run - off, urban agriculture, composting and waste management.

«That includes upgrading agricultural and urban water - use efficiencies by doing things like recycling our waste water.