Cal State Fullerton recently spent $250,000 replacing several acres of grass lawns with drought-tolerant plants to help reduce water usage by 20% by 2020, as mandated by the state. About 60% of the university's water was used for irrigation, totaling over 111 million gallons last year at a cost of $360,000. The new drought-tolerant landscaping includes plants like succulents that require less water. While the university aims to promote sustainability, some experts note that some plants chosen like roses still require frequent watering. Replacing the grass lawns cost $5 per square foot and the university has 29 acres eligible for conversion, with the potential to save over 20% in water usage
How can we sustainably manage our water resources?Andreza Dantas
Dec., 2014 - Presentation delivered to Contemporary Environmental Issues students at the University of Iowa. Sustainable and efficient water management is necessary in order to cope with one of the most important contemporary environmental issues that we are facing currently: water stress. The main goal is come up with solutions to promote a better way to manage this precious natural resource.
If something is potable that means it's safe to drink. In developed countries, tap water is usually potable. Potable water is for drinking and domestic use (cooking, bathing, watering the lawn, etc. We get potable water from springs, wells, streams, rivers, lakes etc. This water still must be treated to kill bacteria. It must also be tested to be sure that toxins from polluting sources have not made it unsafe to drink. The average person uses many gallons of water each day. After we have used it, the water may be dirty and no longer fit to drink. So what happens to that water?
How can we sustainably manage our water resources?Andreza Dantas
Dec., 2014 - Presentation delivered to Contemporary Environmental Issues students at the University of Iowa. Sustainable and efficient water management is necessary in order to cope with one of the most important contemporary environmental issues that we are facing currently: water stress. The main goal is come up with solutions to promote a better way to manage this precious natural resource.
If something is potable that means it's safe to drink. In developed countries, tap water is usually potable. Potable water is for drinking and domestic use (cooking, bathing, watering the lawn, etc. We get potable water from springs, wells, streams, rivers, lakes etc. This water still must be treated to kill bacteria. It must also be tested to be sure that toxins from polluting sources have not made it unsafe to drink. The average person uses many gallons of water each day. After we have used it, the water may be dirty and no longer fit to drink. So what happens to that water?
Water is the “invisible utility”, whose usage patterns are too often overlooked by companies as a cost of doing business. Water bills can account for as much as 20% of a buildings’ utility cost and upwards in process applications. Compared to other countries, Canadian water prices are well below average. The cost of water is likely to rise as watersheds are depleted, water conservation and efficiency standards are legislated, and municipal governments increase rates to fund repairs to aging infrastructure. To reduce water utility bills, building owners must find ways to limit their consumption without sacrificing occupancy comfort.
This integrated media series is about my interest in humanity’s ecological footprint; a measurement of society’s demand on the environment and an approach to sustainability. It is a balancing act of resource consumption and waste discharge, every action taken towards using nature’s resources has an impact on Earth’s ecosystems, however is society playing fairly, or are they misplacing the value of nature in the act of mass consumption?
The City of Big Spring Texas was in severe drought and running out of fresh water. Augmenting freshwater supplies with purified wastewater was the best economical solution. Purifying wastewater to better-than-drinking standards flipped the cost of operating a wastewater plant to a revenue generator, simply by adding more treatment technology. This presentation, from the Florida Water Resources Conference, explains the rationale for selecting UV Oxidation as part of the proven treatment train.
This is an upload of the Power Point file of my keynote at the Global Water Crisis event organized by Water Drop (http://www.waterdrop.ca) - an unedited crib is also published on my blog (http://www.raulpacheco.org).
social science project ppt on Water Resources
Contents:
Introduction.
Prior Knoledge.
About Water resources.
Division of water resources.
Source of Water resources.
Uses of Water.
Energy and water are central to sustainable development and poverty reduction efforts globally. They affect all aspects of development, whether social, economic, or environmental. Sustainable energy and water are core business in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in most developing countries. The eight goals that comprise the MDGs build on agreements made at United Nations conferences during the 1990s.1 They represent commitments by countries around the World to reduce poverty and hunger, and to tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water and environmental degradation.
Thesis- SIGNIFICANCE OF VERTICAL FARMING IN HYBRID ARCHITECTURESwapnilWagh36
Deakin University -School of Architecture and Built Environment
Trimester 1 – 2017
SRR 711 – Master of Architecture Thesis
Unit Chair: Dr.Astrid Roetzel
Supervisor: Susan Ang
Field of study:
SIGNIFICANCE OF VERTICAL FARMING IN HYBRID ARCHITECTURE
Submitted by -Swapnil Dattatray Wagh
Word Count: 8431
Water is the “invisible utility”, whose usage patterns are too often overlooked by companies as a cost of doing business. Water bills can account for as much as 20% of a buildings’ utility cost and upwards in process applications. Compared to other countries, Canadian water prices are well below average. The cost of water is likely to rise as watersheds are depleted, water conservation and efficiency standards are legislated, and municipal governments increase rates to fund repairs to aging infrastructure. To reduce water utility bills, building owners must find ways to limit their consumption without sacrificing occupancy comfort.
This integrated media series is about my interest in humanity’s ecological footprint; a measurement of society’s demand on the environment and an approach to sustainability. It is a balancing act of resource consumption and waste discharge, every action taken towards using nature’s resources has an impact on Earth’s ecosystems, however is society playing fairly, or are they misplacing the value of nature in the act of mass consumption?
The City of Big Spring Texas was in severe drought and running out of fresh water. Augmenting freshwater supplies with purified wastewater was the best economical solution. Purifying wastewater to better-than-drinking standards flipped the cost of operating a wastewater plant to a revenue generator, simply by adding more treatment technology. This presentation, from the Florida Water Resources Conference, explains the rationale for selecting UV Oxidation as part of the proven treatment train.
This is an upload of the Power Point file of my keynote at the Global Water Crisis event organized by Water Drop (http://www.waterdrop.ca) - an unedited crib is also published on my blog (http://www.raulpacheco.org).
social science project ppt on Water Resources
Contents:
Introduction.
Prior Knoledge.
About Water resources.
Division of water resources.
Source of Water resources.
Uses of Water.
Energy and water are central to sustainable development and poverty reduction efforts globally. They affect all aspects of development, whether social, economic, or environmental. Sustainable energy and water are core business in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in most developing countries. The eight goals that comprise the MDGs build on agreements made at United Nations conferences during the 1990s.1 They represent commitments by countries around the World to reduce poverty and hunger, and to tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water and environmental degradation.
Thesis- SIGNIFICANCE OF VERTICAL FARMING IN HYBRID ARCHITECTURESwapnilWagh36
Deakin University -School of Architecture and Built Environment
Trimester 1 – 2017
SRR 711 – Master of Architecture Thesis
Unit Chair: Dr.Astrid Roetzel
Supervisor: Susan Ang
Field of study:
SIGNIFICANCE OF VERTICAL FARMING IN HYBRID ARCHITECTURE
Submitted by -Swapnil Dattatray Wagh
Word Count: 8431
Gray vs. Green: The Role of Watershed-scale Green Infrastructure Systems for ...Mcrpc Staff
Slides from a November 10, 2016 presentation to the Greenways Advisory Committee about green infrastructure, by Jim Patchett, Ron Doetch, and Raj Rajaram.
Green infrastructure: Reconnecting Agriculture and Communities
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Watershed Management Essay
Water Conservation Essay
Essay On Water Supply System
Essay On Integrated Water Management
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Water Management
The Water Crisis and Solutions Essay
Thesis Statement On Water Scarcity
Essay on Water Treatment Process
New Water Management System Essay
IEEE SusTech Global Future of Water Presentation 11/14/17Mark Goldstein
Water remains an essential element for life that plays a central and critical role in all aspects of our national and global economies and environment. We are entering an era of immense water-related threats due to climate change and human actions bringing floods, droughts, reduced water availability, and degraded water quality that threaten communities, nations, and global sociopolitical and economic security.
This presentation covers water futures from a macro level as regions, governments, and industries prepare for and manage increasing water-related threats utilizing traditional and emergent technologies to resolve these issues and provide water and sanitation that address the needs of all. It also will cover water futures from at a more personal and community level featuring technological advances and rediscovery of appropriate technology of the past to forge a water-secure future.
Quantified Conservation can be applied to a variety of ecosystem services and restoration actions.
By quantifying the benefit of conservation projects, we can measure baseline ecosystem conditions, predict the water quality benefit associated with the restored conditions and monitor environmental gain over time. That’s the primary thing we’re after, and the tracking and publishing of our metrics is what helps us to get there.
We hope to inspire others to take a similar approach with data to their conservation projects, so that together we can smartly target our investments in nature and fix more rivers faster.
In this report, you'll find examples of:
- Reducing inputs of phosphorus and nitrogen from livestock on the Sprague River using the Nutrient Tracking Tool
- Providing shade, stabilizing streambanks and limiting nutrient and sediment runoff on the Little Butte Creek using Shade-a-Lator and the Nutrient Tracking Tool
- Reducing high water temperature and restore habitat on Rudio Creek using the Water Temperature Transaction Tool
- Improving habitat for wild fish and other aquatic species on Still Creek using the Stream Function Assessment Methodology
- Plus, uplift data from all flow and habitat restoration projects in 2014
Kansas Rain Garden Design and Implementation Manual ~ Kansas State University
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Philip Lohrmann speaks as a representative of the civilian-layman-environmental enthusiast margin and is currently a construction project manager working out of Shanghai. Philip’s educational background is in Civil Engineering with a focus on the environmental and structural disciplines, particularly water resources. His work experience includes LEED projects in Shanghai, river restoration projects on the West Coast of the United States, and water quality studies in Indiana and Zhejiang. He has also served as a volunteer with community-led local green energy initiatives, disaster relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the non-profit organization Green Empowerment which conceives and implements water, energy and bio-sphere protection projects in South America and Southeast Asia. His turnoffs are end-of-the-tailpipe solutions, end-of-the-conveyor belt quality checks, and need-of-the-moment firefighting.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Multipurpose Projects
CSUF Drought story
1. 2/18/2015 CSUF spends $250,000 to implement drought-tolerant landscaping
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Cal State Fullerton recently replaced several large lawns on
campus with drought-tolerant plants, like the succulent
pictured above. (Katherine Picazo / Daily Titan)
CSUF spends $250,000 to implement drought-tolerant
landscaping
BY KATHERINE PICAZO – POSTED ON NOVEMBER 20, 2014
POSTED IN: CAMPUS NEWS, MULTIMEDIA, NEWS
In face of one of the worst droughts in California’s
history, Cal State Fullerton is replacing swaths of
grass with drought-tolerant landscapes to meet the
state mandate of reducing water use by 20 percent
by 2020.
About 60 percent of the university’s water use is for
irrigation. Last year, the university consumed 111
million gallons of water at an estimated cost of about
$360,000.
Since the mid-’90s, the university has been pursuing
water conservation efforts including the installation of
low flow or waterless fixtures in some locations.
Recently, the university expanded its efforts in
drought-tolerant landscaping. Areas of grass by
Langsdorf Hall, the Titan Student union and the
Education Classroom Building have been uprooted and replaced with plants that are less thirsty.
The university has spent about $250,000 to date to replace grass with drought-tolerant landscapes, including the
cost of drip irrigation, according to Facilities Operations.
Some of the new plantings include Chitalpa pink dawn, Desert Museum palo verde, Mexican bird of paradise and
feather grass, salvia leucantha, lantana, agave, dwarf bougainvillea and geraniums.
“Succulents are the best choice for this kind of (drought-resistant landscaping) because you could water them
infrequently, they will take it up efficiently, they will store it and will remain alive and green even if you don’t water
them for months,” said Professor of Biological Science Jochen Schenk, Ph.D.
Compared to drought-resistant plants used in what is called “xeriscaping,” lawns are extremely wasteful, Schenk
said.
However, Schenk said the university went with a very “half-hearted” statement on water-saving design by using
some desert trees with roses that are notorious for water wasting.
“Our campus is really devoted to sustainability … so I think what would be a really good statement for our campus is
to have a display of real xeriscaping out there with cacti, agave and desert trees and make it beautiful,” Schenk said.
Darren Sandquist, Ph.D., professor of biological science, said the university went with a plant palette that was
somewhere in between not wasting a lot of water and still providing the beauty they wanted to have.
The new plant palette was selected based on color and drought-tolerance, said Greg Keil, Cal State Fullerton’s
landscape manager.
Drought-adapted plants have a high water-use efficiency, which means they grow better than other plants for a
given amount of water they use.
But some of the plants chosen for the new gardens—geraniums, bougainvillea and carpet roses—will need to be
watered much more frequently than the native plants, Sandquist said.
“They are making a big effort to have better water conservation on campus,” he said. “One of the things they are
doing are to create landscapes that recapture water, instead of letting it run off.”
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by creating a reservoir of water in the soil, Sandquist said.
Due to its scope, the recent expansion of drought-tolerant landscaping may bring more attention to the practice, but
it is something that the university has been doing since the turn of the millenium, said Willem van der Pol, director of
facilities operations.
The drip irrigation system coupled with the installation of weed barrier sheets below the soil should reduce the
amount of water lost to evaporation.
“Drip irrigation provides a slow feed that penetrates much deeper to establish and maintain the plants with much
less evaporation,” Van der Pol said.
It costs $5 per square foot to remove the turf and convert the area to water-wise gardens.
Of the 29 acres of unoccupied lawns, 22 are potential candidates for drought-tolerant conversion, according to
Facilities Operations.
They have yet to consider viable options for the rebate program offered by Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California for their next turf-removal project. Metropolitan Water District pays $2 per square foot of turf replacement
for commercial sites who go through the program.
Kathy Ramos, associate resource specialist of Metropolitan Water District, said a water saving analysis showed that
commercial sites who removed turf reduced their water usage on average by 23.9 percent.
The university will continue converting additional acreage as part of their outdoor solutions to reduce overall water
usage and implementing the new motto “brown is the new green.”
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About Katherine Picazo
Katherine is a senior journalism major with a minor in American Studies. This is her second semester at the
Daily Titan as news assistant. This Spring she will be serving as a secretary for CSUF’s Latino Journalists. She
is excited to pursue her career in journalism after graduation.
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