Sentences with phrase «urban water infrastructure»

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.

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

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).

Not exact matches

It is true that cities in the «West» offer, let's say, child - friendly environment (clean air, water etc), and physical infrastructure (playground, sports oval, bike tracks) than urban centres in South East Asia.

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.

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.

The researchers found that investment in new water - efficiency technologies, and retrofitting existing water infrastructure, are big reasons for the improvement in urban areas.

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan highlights a number of serious problems: a public health outbreak, inadequate urban infrastructure, environmental injustice and political failures.

The most familiar infrastructure is an urban infrastructure, which describes the utilities and facilities such as roads, bridges, sewers, and sewer plants, water lines, power lines, fire stations, and other sites and facilities necessary to the functioning of an urban area.

The exhibition addresses the push back that is occurring in communities nationwide around issues such as water access and safety, marginalization of the poor, the murder and incarceration of African American youth, and decay of urban infrastructure.

And as the post points out, some are pure policy questions where the engineering has already been done (urban infrastructure, clean water) but the funding and political support are simply lacking.

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.

It's a global compact signed on a voluntary basis by Local and Regional Authorities willing to adapt their water infrastructure and services to the emerging challenges they are increasingly facing such as climate change, rapid urban growth, depletion and pollution of water resources or ageing infrastructure.

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.

The Netherlands offers inspiration for designers looking to create environments that harvest water, energy and nutrients by William McDonough Published April 23, 2014 in the Guardian Urban farms are transforming inner city spaces — rooftops, infrastructure, streetscapes, building skin — into generative ecologies that support the lives of people, and pollinators too.

There was some resistance to the ideas of John Snow, who correctly realised that the disease was water - borne and that the solution to the epidemic was an expensive refit of urban sanitation infrastructure.

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.

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

This downtown development is part of the city's green infrastructure program created to manage Nashville's urban storm water challenges.

It would be far better to spend some of the trillions being spent on the climate crusade to ensure that our infrastructure can cope with whatever weather extremes do occur; or tackling some real world problems such as terrorism, displaced people, water supply, urban air and water pollution, garbage and landfill.

* 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

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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.

- Prioritization of pedestrian and bike traffic - Embedded mass transit infrastructure - Clean energy generation - Rainwater harvesting and biofiltered water flowing throughout the city - Urban agriculture and food production - A cell - like, self - organizing structure of neighborhoods (although exactly what this means is a little unclear to me right now)- A focus on ethnic and cultural diversity