Sentences with phrase «urban water management»

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Integrated urban water management relies on data allowing the analysis, understanding and predicting of the behaviour of the individual water cycle components and their interactions.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

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.

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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.

Melissa Haeffner, an assistant professor of environmental science and management at PSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the findings highlight a rural - urban divide and show that ranchers» access to water was neither equal nor valued during the drought from 2006 to 2012.

By means of real scenarios, the concept shows how a modern and intelligent water supply and watewater management can be implemented step by step in urban areas.

While the focus of this research was on Chaco Canyon, the researchers found the conclusions for water management systems and kinship mobility relevant to modern urban centers built in arid environments anywhere and anytime in the world.

He has published in numerous social science and environmental science journals on topics of land and water management, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, residential development, and urban resilience.

The story teaches about the migratory behaviors of Canada geese and the urban problems of storm water management — in a format suitable for elementary teaching.

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.

«We didn't want to just build barriers; we wanted to build an ecosystem,» said Henk Ovink, a Dutch water - management expert who now serves as a senior adviser to the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, a group within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has earmarked billions for the program.

Jan 21: «'' 中国的水资源 ： 保障可持续发展的未来» «(China's Water Resources: Ensuring a Sustainable Future) by Christine Boyle --» Understanding Northern China's Water Crisis» (presentation materials available here) and Yusha Hu --» Water Quality and Urban Wastewater Management in China» (presentation materials available here).

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.

Such a mindset needs to become an integral part of our urban planning, water - and food - security management, investment policy, and demographic policy development, among others.»

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.

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.

Integrated water management can help communities prepare for urban growth and climate change.

While this does not provide day — to - day forecasts, it allows planners to assess major environmental trends for use in urban planning, water, and agricultural management.

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.

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.

Project partners: RUAF Foundation (coordination); Mazingira Institute (Kenya); Guelph University (Canada); CIP - Urban Harvest (Peru); Municipal Development Partnerships (Zimbabwe); IPES Promoción del Desarrollo Sostenible (Peru); Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China); Environment and Sustainable Development Unit of the American University (Lebanon); Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine (Senegal); International Water Management Institute (Ghana and India offices); Egerton University (Kenya); CIP - UPWARD (the Philippines); Makerere University (Uganda); Centro de Estudios de Producción Ecológica (Argentina); Kenya Green Towns Partnership Association

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.

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.

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

Project partners: RUAF Foundation (coordination, the Netherlands); Applied Plant Research International of the Wageningen University and Research Centre (The Netherlands); School of Forestry of the University of Florida (USA); The International Water Management Institute (Sri Lanka); The Ministry of Agriculture, Agrarian Development, Minor Irrigation, Industries and Environment of Western Province (Sri Lanka); Kesbewa Urban Council (Sri Lanka); The Ministry of Water, Public Services and Environment, Santa Fe Province (Argentina); Municipality of Rosario (Argentina); Institute of Physics — CONICET Rosario (Argentina); The National University of Rosario (Argentina); Comune de Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso); l'Institut d'Application et de Vulgarisation en Sciences (Burkina Faso); Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office (Nepal); Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (Nepal).

Core Competencies Environmental Land Use • Land / Water Assessment • Data Management • GIS / ArcMap Communication Plant / Animal Habitats • Environmental Geology • Urban Planning • Research Design & Statistics

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.