Sentences with phrase «urban water»

His research is significantly more detailed than previous studies of urban water use.

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

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

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

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

Urban water consumption also generates large volumes of wastewater.

Better coordination among all water sectors and transparent and accountable leadership are also core to improving the resilience of urban water systems.

In the age of climate change and habitat destruction, urban water quality may seem like a relatively minor environmental problem.

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.

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.

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)

Authors of the Indore report recommend that all levels of government in India invest in urban water infrastructure to prevent wastage and expand the public delivery treated water to poor communities.

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.

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.

Designing Cities for People (pdf) Introduction The Ecology of Cities Redesigning Urban Transport Reducing Urban Water Use Farming in the City Upgrading Squatter Settlements Cities for People Chapter 10 Data (xls)

He said in addition to this, the state government was also irrevocably committed to the payment of nother Counterpart Fund as regards the third National Urban Water Sector Reform Project which is being supported by the World Bank.

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.

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.

Apex Consulting Services and Santa Baron Ventures Limited were two of Mr. Aidoo's companies previously involved the importation of inferior boots for Ghana Prisons and the importation of expired 12,000 metric tons of Aluminum Sulphate (alum) for water treatment by Ghana Water Company Limited and Ghana Urban Water Limited.

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.

«Ribbed mussels could help improve urban water quality.»

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.

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

Urban water shortages are more frequent, even intraditionally soggy states like Pennsylvania.

She has been lionized for espousing conservation and pioneering a list of progressive urban water programs in Las Vegas while fiercely negotiating tough agreements between the states to use their water more efficiently and come to terms with having less.

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.

The country's five largest cities are spending $ 13.2 billion to double the capacity of desalination, enough to meet 30 percent of current urban water needs.

«Urban water pumping raises arsenic risk in Southeast Asia: River water is now flowing into aquifers through highly contaminated sediments.»

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.

Ecolocalizer reports, «Not only will Los Angeles» new ordinance help to recycle our planet's most precious resource, it will also help to keep polluted urban water out of our increasingly acidic seas.

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

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.

Her leadership was recognized by Administrator McCarthy of the E.P.A. and L.A.'s Department of Water & Power for breakthroughs in innovative urban water use.

Our data visualizations help show how variable urban water use is around the state.

Extensive conservation and efficiency measures will be needed, reshaping urban water use, improving irrigation methods, and cutting back on the region's lowest - value crops, which are worth less than the water used to grow them.

New York - based Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. provided $ 170 million in non-recourse, floating rate refinancing to Urban Water Tower Associates L.P. and institutional clients of Chicago - based Heitman Capital Management Corp., for Water Tower Place in Chicago.

Chang studied urban water use on a neighborhood - by - neighborhood basis in four US cities: Portland, Ore., Salt Lake City, Phoenix and Austin, Texas.

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 %.