This document discusses Philadelphia's approach to managing stormwater and reducing combined sewer overflows (CSOs) through green infrastructure initiatives. It advocates capturing the first inch of rainfall from one-third of the city's impervious surfaces over 20 years through projects like green streets, homes, schools, and more. This approach aims to continuously improve water quality while providing multiple economic, social and environmental benefits to the city in a more sustainable and cost-effective way than traditional gray infrastructure alone. There is also overwhelming public support for greening the city.
This document outlines plans for developing a green city that focuses on sustainability. Some key points:
- The city will use renewable resources like solar and wind power to generate electricity and power infrastructure like street lights. It will also implement rainwater harvesting and a water recycling system.
- Buildings in the residential and commercial areas will be energy efficient and use techniques like solar panels to reduce consumption.
- Transportation within the city will include a personal rapid transit system using electric vehicles, encouraging low-carbon options like walking and biking.
- The development aims to significantly reduce its carbon footprint and environmental impact through these sustainable design and energy choices.
A green city uses environmentally friendly processes throughout its lifecycle by employing renewable materials, recycling, and blending with the local environment. This reduces impacts on the environment while improving efficiency. Green cities are gaining importance due to their cost savings. However, current cities face problems like lack of eco-friendly construction, waste management, and renewable energy usage. Transitioning to green cities can provide health, environmental, and economic benefits like emissions reduction, resource conservation, and cost savings. This involves strategies like green building materials, renewable energy systems, water recycling, and waste management.
This document discusses strategies for Hyderabad, India to transform into a global city through sustainable water management. It outlines three key points:
1. Hyderabad has potential to become a global city by balancing urban growth with green/blue environments, but sustainable water resource management is needed.
2. Concepts like circular economy and "sponge cities" that capture excess runoff can help minimize water risks, carbon footprint, and capture resources like methane from waste.
3. Suggestions for action include leveraging technology for digital water management, incentivizing innovations through public-private partnerships and financing, and building stakeholder engagement for quality of life goals.
The document discusses transforming the city of Malang, Indonesia into a green city. It provides background on the trend of rapid urbanization globally and defines a green economy as one that is low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive. It then highlights examples from various cities around the world that have successfully promoted cycling and active mobility through infrastructure improvements and policies. This includes cases from London, Taipei, Copenhagen, Melbourne and others. The document argues that investing in walkability and cycling can provide attractive transportation options that improve health, liveability and sustainability for urban residents.
The document discusses what constitutes a green and sustainable city. It explains that a green city aims to balance environmental, economic and social needs to ensure a clean, healthy environment for current and future generations. Some key elements of green cities include green and blue spaces that provide oxygen, green corridors for recreation and biodiversity, and green belts to prevent urban sprawl. Planning considerations for green cities include ensuring clean air and water, mixed land use, renewable energy, and public transportation. Benefits of green cities include improved environmental quality, health outcomes, property values, and quality of life.
This document summarizes an eco-technology presentation by Mr. Yeshwant Kulkarni of Green Water Revolution Pvt. Ltd. It discusses current issues with water pollution in urban areas of India. It then introduces various eco-technological solutions developed by Green Water Revolution to treat both point sources of pollution from places like cities as well as non-point sources like rivers and lakes. These include vertical soil scape filters to treat wastewater and horizontal green bridge systems installed in polluted rivers and streams to reduce pollution loads. It highlights several successful projects implementing these eco-technological solutions in India to restore polluted rivers and streams.
Eco-city is defined as an ecologically healthy city that provides abundance to its inhabitants through renewable resources and minimizes waste and pollution. The document outlines the key elements of an eco-city including green spaces like community gardens, parks and plantations to make the city green. Clean city initiatives involve proper waste management and disposal. The eco-city aims to rely on renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydro power. Building green spaces, corridors, forests and farms are essential, as well as green buildings that efficiently use energy and resources. Challenges include existing infrastructure and costs, while suggestions are encouraging renewable energy, public transport, education and strict environmental laws.
This document outlines plans for developing a green city that focuses on sustainability. Some key points:
- The city will use renewable resources like solar and wind power to generate electricity and power infrastructure like street lights. It will also implement rainwater harvesting and a water recycling system.
- Buildings in the residential and commercial areas will be energy efficient and use techniques like solar panels to reduce consumption.
- Transportation within the city will include a personal rapid transit system using electric vehicles, encouraging low-carbon options like walking and biking.
- The development aims to significantly reduce its carbon footprint and environmental impact through these sustainable design and energy choices.
A green city uses environmentally friendly processes throughout its lifecycle by employing renewable materials, recycling, and blending with the local environment. This reduces impacts on the environment while improving efficiency. Green cities are gaining importance due to their cost savings. However, current cities face problems like lack of eco-friendly construction, waste management, and renewable energy usage. Transitioning to green cities can provide health, environmental, and economic benefits like emissions reduction, resource conservation, and cost savings. This involves strategies like green building materials, renewable energy systems, water recycling, and waste management.
This document discusses strategies for Hyderabad, India to transform into a global city through sustainable water management. It outlines three key points:
1. Hyderabad has potential to become a global city by balancing urban growth with green/blue environments, but sustainable water resource management is needed.
2. Concepts like circular economy and "sponge cities" that capture excess runoff can help minimize water risks, carbon footprint, and capture resources like methane from waste.
3. Suggestions for action include leveraging technology for digital water management, incentivizing innovations through public-private partnerships and financing, and building stakeholder engagement for quality of life goals.
The document discusses transforming the city of Malang, Indonesia into a green city. It provides background on the trend of rapid urbanization globally and defines a green economy as one that is low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive. It then highlights examples from various cities around the world that have successfully promoted cycling and active mobility through infrastructure improvements and policies. This includes cases from London, Taipei, Copenhagen, Melbourne and others. The document argues that investing in walkability and cycling can provide attractive transportation options that improve health, liveability and sustainability for urban residents.
The document discusses what constitutes a green and sustainable city. It explains that a green city aims to balance environmental, economic and social needs to ensure a clean, healthy environment for current and future generations. Some key elements of green cities include green and blue spaces that provide oxygen, green corridors for recreation and biodiversity, and green belts to prevent urban sprawl. Planning considerations for green cities include ensuring clean air and water, mixed land use, renewable energy, and public transportation. Benefits of green cities include improved environmental quality, health outcomes, property values, and quality of life.
This document summarizes an eco-technology presentation by Mr. Yeshwant Kulkarni of Green Water Revolution Pvt. Ltd. It discusses current issues with water pollution in urban areas of India. It then introduces various eco-technological solutions developed by Green Water Revolution to treat both point sources of pollution from places like cities as well as non-point sources like rivers and lakes. These include vertical soil scape filters to treat wastewater and horizontal green bridge systems installed in polluted rivers and streams to reduce pollution loads. It highlights several successful projects implementing these eco-technological solutions in India to restore polluted rivers and streams.
Eco-city is defined as an ecologically healthy city that provides abundance to its inhabitants through renewable resources and minimizes waste and pollution. The document outlines the key elements of an eco-city including green spaces like community gardens, parks and plantations to make the city green. Clean city initiatives involve proper waste management and disposal. The eco-city aims to rely on renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydro power. Building green spaces, corridors, forests and farms are essential, as well as green buildings that efficiently use energy and resources. Challenges include existing infrastructure and costs, while suggestions are encouraging renewable energy, public transport, education and strict environmental laws.
This document discusses concepts for green and sustainable urban planning. It describes how overpopulation, pollution and climate change will impact cities, requiring new approaches. It then defines and compares concepts like new urbanism, bio-urbanism, eco-cities, smart cities, and green cities which aim to make settlements more sustainable and nature-oriented. The key elements that make a city green are identified as green and blue areas for oxygen production, green-blue corridors along waterways, green belts around cities, urban forests, farms and green buildings that use resources efficiently.
Water / Wastewater - how we solve Sydney's water problem | Biocity StudioBiocity Studio
If Sydney’s water supply is consumed our agricultural industry, transport and energy will be badly effected. This presentation looks at how we solve Sydney’s water problem? Do we build a desalination plant or try to scale water on a large scale?
ECO CITY AND ITS FUTURE PLAN,VISION CONTESTswarna dey
An Eco-city is a human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining resilient structure & function of natural ecosystems.
Our dream for an eco-city would be that of elimination of carbon waste, energy production entirely through renewable resources, & merging the city harmoniously with the natural environment.
How to make our city more connected to the nature? The answer lies within some interconnected methods.
To begin with, the advocacy of vertical gardens in Dhaka that hates being decorated with extensive use of architectural glass as a building material that snowballs temperature drastically. A green wall is a wall partially or completely covered with greenery that includes a growing medium, such as soil or a substrate. They, may be indoors or outside, freestanding or attached to an existing wall, & come in a great variety of sizes. It’s a paramount & cost-effective solution to pollution. It wanes urban heat island effect & smog, cleanses outside air of pollutants & dust, cleans interior air space by removing VOCs, acts as a sound proofing barrier, insulates the building envelop, creates habitats for avifauna & insects, helps patients to recuperate through biophilia, assists children with ADHD to focus on studies.
Next, the promotion of urban forestry is needed which manifests the care & management of tree populations in urban settings for the purpose of improving the urban environment. Landscape architecture combining with urban forestry can provide many facilities such as scaling down storm water runoff, axing air pollution, downsizing energy costs through increased shade over buildings, enhancing property values, improving wildlife habitat, & mitigating environmental impact.
Lastly, the proper evaluation & expansion of Horticulture can be a stroke of luck for us. It includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, garden design & maintenance. Garden designing in buildings, specially rooftops & corridors can bring indefinite benefits. The implications of Arboriculture, turf management, floriculture, olericulture & landscape horticulture in urban areas will demonstrate tangible improvements in economic, psychological and other outcomes, access to nature.
The document provides details about the Nonglim Nongladew village in Meghalaya, India. It describes the village as small and surrounded by natural beauty, inhabited by Khasi tribes. The main livelihood is rainfed paddy cultivation. A community participation project was implemented to provide water for agricultural fields via an earthen channel and pipelines from a nearby stream. Villagers contributed labor to construct the system and agreed to future maintenance. This has given them a strong sense of ownership over the natural resource management project, which has been successful and sustainable due to their participatory approach.
Gravity+02+skillicorn technologies & amp; sydney circular economyPaulSkillicorn
This solves The City of Sydney and Sydney Water's problems with volatile solid wastes & sewage treatment as well as problems with future availability of water. It also massively increases The City of Sydney's revenues.
Green buildings from the home to the cityzenrain man
This document discusses the principles and practices of permaculture as they relate to creating sustainable urban environments. It provides definitions of permaculture as creating sustainable human habitats by following nature's patterns. The key ethics of permaculture are earth care, people care, and fair share. The document then outlines various permaculture principles and how they can be applied to managing resources like earth, water, energy, and nutrients in cities. It gives examples of projects in Bangalore, India that utilize rooftop gardens, rainwater harvesting, solar power, and ecological sanitation to meet urban needs sustainably.
This document summarizes municipal progress in Fort Collins, Colorado from 2005 to 2011 related to sustainability initiatives. Key points include:
- Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 10% from 2005-2010 through projects like recycling, lighting retrofits, and methane recovery.
- Financial savings of $594,248 were achieved through initiatives that also provided social benefits like rebates and better air quality.
- Goals around reducing energy use and increasing renewable energy and alternative fuels were partially met, while recycling and tree planting increased.
- Community-wide emissions dropped 5% despite population growth, showing carbon reductions can support economic growth.
Australia And Singapore - How are they dealing with water problems?Soma Bhadra
Presentation at the Council of Water Managers Dinner Meeting on October 19th, 2010.
Over the last couple years, I have been fortunate to be living in Australia while designing and building one of the largest recycled water plants in the world. During my stay in Australia, I was also managing a design team out of Singapore which required me to make frequent trips to Singapore. Thus I was able to observe the water management policies and programs in these two countries. By bringing these ideas to you, my aim is to promote a healthy discussion on opportunities here in San Diego County.
This document discusses five theories of urban water restoration: 1) Consider the full watershed, 2) Ensure water quality by managing the catchment area, 3) Find beneficial uses for all water, 4) Take a holistic planning approach that generates economic and social benefits, and 5) Aim for vibrant, living water bodies rather than sterile infrastructure. Case studies from India are presented for each theory. The document advocates comprehensive planning and stakeholder engagement to successfully restore urban blue spaces.
Green infrastructure was implemented on a busy residential street to address stormwater issues and improve neighborhood livability. Porous asphalt and chicanes were used to slow traffic and allow stormwater to permeate, while stormwater planters and tree trenches provided shade, beauty, and helped filter runoff. The green streets approach aimed to reduce car use, improve water quality, and boost local economic activity and quality of life for residents.
The document summarizes Singapore's integrated water resource management strategies. It discusses Singapore's water challenges due to population growth and limited local water sources. Singapore now sources water from four "taps"- local catchment, imported water, NEWater (treated used water), and desalinated water. It manages water demand through conservation, pricing, and public education. It also treats and recycles used water through the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System to boost water sustainability.
Campaign for a million wells in Bengaluru, Indiabiometrust
Biome Environmental Trust was awarded joint second prize in the NGO category in the 9th Edition of the FICCI Water Awards 2021. This is the presentation made to the awards jury by Shubha Ramachandran of Biome Trust.
Ensuring world class civic amenities in urban India. The document discusses solutions to problems with civic amenities like water supply, electricity, roads/flyovers, garbage disposal, city beautification, and education. It proposes solutions like increasing water purification plants, promoting rainwater harvesting, subsidizing green tech, empowering a panel to oversee roads, mandating home garbage segregation, increasing green spaces, and allocating education funds based on student poverty levels. Implementation would include dividing cities into zones served by water plants, making rainwater harvesting mandatory, subsidizing solar panels/CFLs, increasing parks and constructing skyscrapers. Challenges include high costs of water plants, expensive green tech, potential corruption in road oversight and education
This document contains instructions and questions for a half-term homework assignment on land use and urban development. Students are asked to complete a factfile on a large retail center, analyze how land use has changed in Gunwharf Quays between 1999 and 2010, compare the advantages and disadvantages of developing brownfield versus greenfield sites, and consider which of two potential sites for redevelopment in Portsmouth would be most sustainable. The document also includes discussion questions about migration patterns, green belts, and problems associated with them.
Sydney's Water Sustainability | Biocity StudioBiocity Studio
Sydney is experiencing long-term droughts, low rainfall and a high demand for water. What can we do to help solve the water crisis? Water restrictions are only a short-term fix. Other solutions are desalination and recycle water plants, water management, and artificial precipitation.
This document discusses concepts for green and sustainable urban planning. It describes how overpopulation, pollution and climate change will impact cities, requiring new approaches. It then defines and compares concepts like new urbanism, bio-urbanism, eco-cities, smart cities, and green cities which aim to make settlements more sustainable and nature-oriented. The key elements that make a city green are identified as green and blue areas for oxygen production, green-blue corridors along waterways, green belts around cities, urban forests, farms and green buildings that use resources efficiently.
Water / Wastewater - how we solve Sydney's water problem | Biocity StudioBiocity Studio
If Sydney’s water supply is consumed our agricultural industry, transport and energy will be badly effected. This presentation looks at how we solve Sydney’s water problem? Do we build a desalination plant or try to scale water on a large scale?
ECO CITY AND ITS FUTURE PLAN,VISION CONTESTswarna dey
An Eco-city is a human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining resilient structure & function of natural ecosystems.
Our dream for an eco-city would be that of elimination of carbon waste, energy production entirely through renewable resources, & merging the city harmoniously with the natural environment.
How to make our city more connected to the nature? The answer lies within some interconnected methods.
To begin with, the advocacy of vertical gardens in Dhaka that hates being decorated with extensive use of architectural glass as a building material that snowballs temperature drastically. A green wall is a wall partially or completely covered with greenery that includes a growing medium, such as soil or a substrate. They, may be indoors or outside, freestanding or attached to an existing wall, & come in a great variety of sizes. It’s a paramount & cost-effective solution to pollution. It wanes urban heat island effect & smog, cleanses outside air of pollutants & dust, cleans interior air space by removing VOCs, acts as a sound proofing barrier, insulates the building envelop, creates habitats for avifauna & insects, helps patients to recuperate through biophilia, assists children with ADHD to focus on studies.
Next, the promotion of urban forestry is needed which manifests the care & management of tree populations in urban settings for the purpose of improving the urban environment. Landscape architecture combining with urban forestry can provide many facilities such as scaling down storm water runoff, axing air pollution, downsizing energy costs through increased shade over buildings, enhancing property values, improving wildlife habitat, & mitigating environmental impact.
Lastly, the proper evaluation & expansion of Horticulture can be a stroke of luck for us. It includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, garden design & maintenance. Garden designing in buildings, specially rooftops & corridors can bring indefinite benefits. The implications of Arboriculture, turf management, floriculture, olericulture & landscape horticulture in urban areas will demonstrate tangible improvements in economic, psychological and other outcomes, access to nature.
The document provides details about the Nonglim Nongladew village in Meghalaya, India. It describes the village as small and surrounded by natural beauty, inhabited by Khasi tribes. The main livelihood is rainfed paddy cultivation. A community participation project was implemented to provide water for agricultural fields via an earthen channel and pipelines from a nearby stream. Villagers contributed labor to construct the system and agreed to future maintenance. This has given them a strong sense of ownership over the natural resource management project, which has been successful and sustainable due to their participatory approach.
Gravity+02+skillicorn technologies & amp; sydney circular economyPaulSkillicorn
This solves The City of Sydney and Sydney Water's problems with volatile solid wastes & sewage treatment as well as problems with future availability of water. It also massively increases The City of Sydney's revenues.
Green buildings from the home to the cityzenrain man
This document discusses the principles and practices of permaculture as they relate to creating sustainable urban environments. It provides definitions of permaculture as creating sustainable human habitats by following nature's patterns. The key ethics of permaculture are earth care, people care, and fair share. The document then outlines various permaculture principles and how they can be applied to managing resources like earth, water, energy, and nutrients in cities. It gives examples of projects in Bangalore, India that utilize rooftop gardens, rainwater harvesting, solar power, and ecological sanitation to meet urban needs sustainably.
This document summarizes municipal progress in Fort Collins, Colorado from 2005 to 2011 related to sustainability initiatives. Key points include:
- Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 10% from 2005-2010 through projects like recycling, lighting retrofits, and methane recovery.
- Financial savings of $594,248 were achieved through initiatives that also provided social benefits like rebates and better air quality.
- Goals around reducing energy use and increasing renewable energy and alternative fuels were partially met, while recycling and tree planting increased.
- Community-wide emissions dropped 5% despite population growth, showing carbon reductions can support economic growth.
Australia And Singapore - How are they dealing with water problems?Soma Bhadra
Presentation at the Council of Water Managers Dinner Meeting on October 19th, 2010.
Over the last couple years, I have been fortunate to be living in Australia while designing and building one of the largest recycled water plants in the world. During my stay in Australia, I was also managing a design team out of Singapore which required me to make frequent trips to Singapore. Thus I was able to observe the water management policies and programs in these two countries. By bringing these ideas to you, my aim is to promote a healthy discussion on opportunities here in San Diego County.
This document discusses five theories of urban water restoration: 1) Consider the full watershed, 2) Ensure water quality by managing the catchment area, 3) Find beneficial uses for all water, 4) Take a holistic planning approach that generates economic and social benefits, and 5) Aim for vibrant, living water bodies rather than sterile infrastructure. Case studies from India are presented for each theory. The document advocates comprehensive planning and stakeholder engagement to successfully restore urban blue spaces.
Green infrastructure was implemented on a busy residential street to address stormwater issues and improve neighborhood livability. Porous asphalt and chicanes were used to slow traffic and allow stormwater to permeate, while stormwater planters and tree trenches provided shade, beauty, and helped filter runoff. The green streets approach aimed to reduce car use, improve water quality, and boost local economic activity and quality of life for residents.
The document summarizes Singapore's integrated water resource management strategies. It discusses Singapore's water challenges due to population growth and limited local water sources. Singapore now sources water from four "taps"- local catchment, imported water, NEWater (treated used water), and desalinated water. It manages water demand through conservation, pricing, and public education. It also treats and recycles used water through the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System to boost water sustainability.
Campaign for a million wells in Bengaluru, Indiabiometrust
Biome Environmental Trust was awarded joint second prize in the NGO category in the 9th Edition of the FICCI Water Awards 2021. This is the presentation made to the awards jury by Shubha Ramachandran of Biome Trust.
Ensuring world class civic amenities in urban India. The document discusses solutions to problems with civic amenities like water supply, electricity, roads/flyovers, garbage disposal, city beautification, and education. It proposes solutions like increasing water purification plants, promoting rainwater harvesting, subsidizing green tech, empowering a panel to oversee roads, mandating home garbage segregation, increasing green spaces, and allocating education funds based on student poverty levels. Implementation would include dividing cities into zones served by water plants, making rainwater harvesting mandatory, subsidizing solar panels/CFLs, increasing parks and constructing skyscrapers. Challenges include high costs of water plants, expensive green tech, potential corruption in road oversight and education
This document contains instructions and questions for a half-term homework assignment on land use and urban development. Students are asked to complete a factfile on a large retail center, analyze how land use has changed in Gunwharf Quays between 1999 and 2010, compare the advantages and disadvantages of developing brownfield versus greenfield sites, and consider which of two potential sites for redevelopment in Portsmouth would be most sustainable. The document also includes discussion questions about migration patterns, green belts, and problems associated with them.
Sydney's Water Sustainability | Biocity StudioBiocity Studio
Sydney is experiencing long-term droughts, low rainfall and a high demand for water. What can we do to help solve the water crisis? Water restrictions are only a short-term fix. Other solutions are desalination and recycle water plants, water management, and artificial precipitation.
The document discusses the Harvard Kennedy School Green Team, which works to promote sustainability and environmental stewardship at the Harvard Kennedy School. It mentions the Green Team three times, suggesting it is the main focus or subject of the text. The document provides little other details beyond naming the Harvard Kennedy School Green Team.
The document discusses the Indian Green Building Council's (IGBC) efforts to promote green schools in India. It outlines the benefits of green schools, such as improved learning environments, student and faculty health, energy and water savings. It also summarizes IGBC's green school rating system and initiatives to promote green schools, such as awareness programs, contests, and developing a green schools rating program. The overall goal is to create healthier, more sustainable learning environments while reducing environmental impacts.
This document provides an overview of designing sustainable and relocatable classrooms. It discusses key issues like energy and water use, materials, indoor environmental quality, and waste. International and national case studies showcase best practices, like classrooms that use minimal energy and have good ventilation. However, many relocatables currently struggle with high energy use, poor ventilation, noise, and off-gassing of chemicals. The document sets aspirational targets for sustainability in future relocatable classrooms and links these issues to green building rating systems. It also highlights the need for classrooms to support different teaching approaches and motivate student inquiry.
The document provides tips for students and parents to be more environmentally friendly when preparing for the new school year. Suggestions include choosing green transportation like walking, biking or taking the bus; reusing supplies from the previous year like notebooks, folders and backpacks; packing healthy lunches in reusable containers instead of plastic bags and junk food; and donating old toys and clothes instead of throwing them away.
Architype presentation given to the local branch of Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) at the Ministry of Education, Wellington NZ, 19 February 2014.
Urban Waters -- Howard Neukrug discusses Philadelphia's Clean Waters PlanPatricia Scott
The document discusses a new approach to managing stormwater that focuses on green infrastructure and sustainability. It promotes temporarily holding stormwater on site through infiltration and evaporation rather than quickly piping it away. This helps link land and water management and improves water quality. The approach includes greening impervious surfaces, restoring streams, and investing in green stormwater programs to manage runoff from every acre. Public support for greening the city is overwhelming.
Environmental Performance of Cities - Elements for a Framework-MainguyICLEI
This document outlines a framework for assessing the environmental performance of cities. It discusses monitoring key local issues like water, sanitation, waste and air/water pollution. However, it notes that cities also impact distant environments through consumption and outputs. It reviews city indicators and finds climate change is the only global issue monitored. The document prioritizes providing adequate environmental infrastructure in all cities by 2025. It also suggests actions cities can take to restore local ecosystems and reduce food waste to lessen distant and global impacts.
The document discusses the future of urban water management and integrated urban water management (IUWM). It notes that while upper income countries have improved public health outcomes and environmental protection, current water systems are not resilient enough to handle future challenges. The urban population is growing rapidly, especially in developing countries, putting pressure on water resources. There is an opportunity to design water systems differently using IUWM principles. Key points include managing water as a single urban cycle, adapting to uncertainty, using diverse water sources, and involving all stakeholders. Case studies from around the world demonstrate successes with IUWM approaches.
Climate change and the sustainable built environmentlaneycollege
With over 6.6 billion people living predominantly in urban areas, the document discusses Earth's carrying capacity and how it is determined. It then provides data on the ecological footprints of various countries and regions. Several graphics show trends of increasing global temperatures, rising sea levels, and effects on glaciers, coral reefs, and wildlife. The text discusses the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change and its economic and health impacts. It outlines California's goals to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
Urban Flood Management: Towards A Holistic Approach. Ecological Consideration...Oswar Mungkasa
This document discusses holistic approaches to urban flood management. It provides examples of flooding issues and lessons learned from cities like Thailand, Mumbai, Cherrapunji and San Francisco. The key lessons discussed are the importance of protecting natural watersheds and drainage systems, implementing integrated waste management, and taking an interdisciplinary approach to flood planning that considers both gray and green infrastructure solutions. The San Francisco case study highlights how considering social, economic and environmental sustainability together can help optimize flood management outcomes.
Addressing Hydrology at the Watershed Scale: A Novel Approach to Stormwater M...TWCA
1. The document discusses how humans have altered urban hydrology through increased impervious cover and proposes distributed small-scale stormwater controls as a solution.
2. Modeling showed that distributed controls like rain cisterns and rain gardens, even at low adoption rates, could meaningfully improve hydrologic metrics and provide water supply benefits by reducing runoff.
3. Implementing distributed stormwater controls across different land uses has the potential to shift urban hydrology in a way that approximates reducing effective impervious cover by 25%.
Finding Water Through Rain introduces several
conservation alternatives in rainwater and stormwater
management. These concepts include greenway
acquisition, wetlands, cisterns, pervious concrete,
earthworks, native plants and green roofs. By
implementing these practices Atlanta could use rainwater
more efficiently.
Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Sewer OverflowSotirakou964
This document discusses the growing problem of urban stormwater and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and promotes green infrastructure as an effective solution. It contains the following key points:
1. Impervious surfaces in urban areas have increased runoff and pollution, threatening water quality. Green infrastructure like trees and permeable pavement intercepts rainfall and reduces runoff at its source.
2. Case studies show green infrastructure can cost-effectively control stormwater and CSOs while providing additional benefits like improved air and water quality. Cities have established programs using techniques like green roofs, rain gardens, swales, and downspout disconnection.
3. Wider adoption of green infrastructure faces obstacles
Urbanization has significantly increased the amount of impervious surfaces like roads and buildings, altering the natural water cycle. Over 100 million acres in the US are now developed. This causes more stormwater runoff, carrying pollutants directly into waterways. Current stormwater infrastructure is inadequate, as it was designed only to convey runoff efficiently rather than treat pollution. As a result, stormwater is the top pollution source for over half of ocean shorelines and a third of estuaries. Combined sewer overflows also introduce untreated sewage during heavy rains. New approaches are needed to manage stormwater sustainably.
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract – sustainable development – and turn it into a reality for all the world’s people. Rampant urbanization and climate changes have triggered severe and frequent natural disasters. Green infrastructure provides an opportunity to reassess how we manage and use green spaces through the identification and provision of interconnected green spaces that protect, manage and enhance environmental resources. Successful green and blue infrastructure planning is recognized as a natural solution and less expensive alternative to conventional 'grey' infrastructure that is environmentally friendly. As we are at the edge of climate change tipping points, integrating blue-green-grey infrastructure is a necessity to design sustainable and climate resilient cities.
1) The document discusses the future of urban water management and the growing challenges facing cities globally over the coming decades as urban populations swell.
2) By 2050, over 90% of population growth will occur in urban areas of developing countries, placing immense strain on water resources and infrastructure.
3) Integrated urban water management (IUWM) is presented as a holistic solution that considers the urban water cycle as one interconnected system and maximizes diverse water sources to improve security, sustainability and affordability.
4) Case studies from cities that have implemented aspects of IUWM, such as Bogota, Lodz, Phnom Penh, Ethekwini and Windhoek, demonstrate
Gray vs. Green: The Role of Watershed-scale Green Infrastructure Systems for ...Mcrpc Staff
This document discusses the role of green infrastructure systems for managing wastewater at a watershed scale. It begins by outlining the historical patterns of water movement through uplands and lowlands, and how contemporary development has reversed these patterns. It then describes various green infrastructure strategies that can replicate natural hydrology, including green roofs, porous pavements, bio-retention systems, rainwater harvesting, wastewater recycling, and native landscaping. The document provides examples of these strategies and concludes by discussing a new paradigm in wastewater treatment using lagoons and floating mats of bacteria to polish wastewater in a low-cost, low-energy manner.
Synergy in Integration - Institutional Mechanism for Managing Hydrological Ex...Global Water Partnership
This document summarizes a workshop on managing hydrological extremes like floods and droughts in Pakistan. It discusses how water is central to socioeconomic development and food security. It notes that climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of extreme water events in Pakistan. The document calls for moving beyond structural measures to also implement non-structural initiatives. It emphasizes the need to update Pakistan's national water sector data and models to better manage floods and droughts under climate change.
The workshop will cover innovative water reuse and wastewater treatment options for commercial, institutional and medium-large residential development applications with an emphasis on environmental protection, cost effectiveness and simplicity of Operations & Maintenance. In addition to regulatory requirements, the key environmental drivers that are the basis for sustainability water management design will be described.
The presenter was Pio Lombardo, PE, President of Lombardo Associates, Inc. (LAI).
The document discusses water reuse and wastewater management best practices. It provides details on Pio Lombardo's credentials and experience in wastewater management over 35 years. It then outlines various commercial and residential development project types that have implemented water reuse and wastewater treatment systems to reduce potable water demand and achieve no net discharge of wastewater. Specific case studies and projects are described that utilized water reuse for toilet flushing, irrigation, and other non-potable uses.
Thomas Jefferson believed that each generation should not contract debts greater than what can be paid off during its lifetime. Green buildings on average use 30-50% less energy, produce 35% less carbon emissions, and use 30% less water compared to conventional buildings. A typical family uses nearly a third of its household water outdoors, with more than half evaporating or running off due to overwatering while drip irrigation uses 20-50% less water than conventional sprinklers.
Collaboration, Science, and Technology Merge to Improve Water QualityArbor Day Foundation
Collaboration, Science, and Technology Merge to Improve Water Quality
Dave Gamstetter, City of Cincinnati | Donna M. Murphy, US Forest Service Northeastern Area
In 2010 the Cincinnati Park Board (CPB) formed a partnership with the Metropolitan Sewer Department of Greater Cincinnati (MSDGC) to assist with the implementation of green solutions to meet the regulatory requirements of the consent decree using a triple bottom line approach. This presentation discusses how natural design solutions, BMPs, stormwater controls, and forests are being used to enhance green infrastructure and reduce stormwater flow on a watershed scale. The program is Project Groundwork.
This document discusses how wetlands can help reduce Canada's municipal infrastructure deficit by improving water quality and reducing flooding risks. It notes that 70-90% of prairie wetlands have been drained, contributing to problems like algae blooms that strain aging water infrastructure. Wetlands naturally filter and clean water by capturing nutrients and sediment. The document argues that municipal leaders should advocate more for wetland protection through regulations and compensation programs that offset costs to farmers, and also raise public awareness of wetlands' benefits to gain broader political support. Protecting and restoring wetlands could help lower infrastructure repair and replacement costs in the long run.
The University of Redlands has taken several steps to reduce water usage in response to the California drought. Water usage has been cut by 35% through installing low flow shower heads, aerators and toilets in dorms. While projects like installing flush-free urinals have been proposed, the aging infrastructure of campus buildings has made such upgrades challenging and costly to implement. The university has also converted landscape watering to non-potable water sources and replaced grass areas with drought tolerant plants, reducing water usage by 250,000 gallons per month. Further projects are planned but financial resources are limited, requiring cooperation between facilities management and the student body to make progress on sustainability goals.
1. Green City… Clean Water
Blending interests of land and water
Howard M. Neukrug, PE
Director, Office of Watersheds
City of Philadelphia
2. Philadelphia Water Department Office of Watersheds
• An integrated utility:
• Drinking Water
• Wastewater
• Stormwater
• A new integrated approach:
• Land
• Waterways
• Infrastructure
• Community
3. Philadelphia Water Department Office of Watersheds
Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term
Control Plan Update
(CSO LTCPU)
• $1.6 billion, 20 year program
• Upgrade WPCP wet-weather capacity
• Restore and protect all urban streams
• “Green” 1/3rd of the city in 20 years
• Reduce overflow volume by half
4. Philadelphia Water Department Office of Watersheds
Weaknesses of the plan:
• Overflows will continue
• Costs will exceed affordable limits
• Upstream – no changes
• The plan relies on strong utility
leadership, partnerships, fiscal
responsibility, innovation and..
• a city that is striving to become a
growing, sustainable city
(we need a sustainable city to have a
sustainable utility and the city needs
this plan to become sustainable)
5.
6. Why is Green Infrastructure Critical to Philadelphia?
• Continuing the old approach is unsustainable
• Environmental justice
• Shrinking cities
• Old infrastructure
• Large percentage of low income households
• New opportunities
• The Greenest City in America
• Time of large-scale community renewal
• New focus of sustainability, urban waters,
open space, Climate change
25. Urban Farmers: Vacant lots to Markets
Photo by Hannah Y Juan/
Plantings by displaced people in
Bogota’s main plaza
Todd Heisler/The New York Times
26. Biomimicry
Janice Konstantinidis
Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down.
Clouds of mystry pourin confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, tryin to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?
-Creedence Clearwater Revival
27. si x a r P n n e P d n a T R W f o y s e t r u o C
Sustainable Site Design
37. Crooked
Streams are a
menace to life
and crops…
In addition,
much of the dirt
is loosened and
later scoured
out by the water
…which rushes
swiftly through
the straightened
channel
38.
39. There are significant issues ahead of us for improving
the water environment
PLUS: LTCPU, 308 letter, state COA, new
permits
40.
41. Our Approach for investing in CSO reductions
• Keep stormwater out of the sewer
Photo: Black & Veatch
42. Our Approach for investing in CSO reductions
• Keep stormwater out of the sewer
• Spend capital dollars above the ground, not below it
50. Our Approach for investing in CSO reductions
• Keep stormwater out of the sewer
• Spend capital dollars above the ground, not below it
• Restore the urban waterways
51.
52.
53.
54. Our Approach for investing in CSO reductions
• Keep stormwater out of the sewer
• Spend capital dollars above the ground, not below it
• Restore the urban waterways
• Recognize that for PWD to be a sustainable utility,
our city must be sustainable
56. Our Approach for investing in CSO reductions
• Keep stormwater out of the sewer
• Spend capital dollars above the ground, not below it
• Restore the urban waterways
• Recognize that for PWD to be a sustainable utility,
our city must be sustainable
• Solve multiple problems at once
57. The Public is equally interested in all things water
Streamflow and Living
Resources, 12%
Quality of Life, 12%
Flooding, 11%
Stream Corridors, 11%
Stewardship, 11%
Pollutant Loads, 10%
Stream Habitat and Aquatic
Life, 9%
Water Quality, 9%
Coordination, 8%
Stream Channels and Banks,
7%
58. Example of How Benefits are Linked
Tree planting
Air quality Cooling Aesthetics Water quality
Energy Reduced
savings heat stress
Health Energy cost Reduced GHG Enhanced
benefits savings emissions property values
59. Triple Bottom Line
Economic/Environmental/Social Benefits
• Costs
• Ecological Benefits
• Recreation
• Heat Stress Mortality
• Energy Savings
• Air Quality
• Carbon Footprint
• Aesthetics
• Jobs
• Property Value
60. TBL Benefits
• Jobs - 250 people employed annually
• Recreation - 10% more recreation and stream related visits
• Property Values - $390M increase to homes near parks and green areas
• Heat Related Fatalities - 140 fewer
• Premature Deaths - 1-2 avoided / yr
• Asthma Attacks - 20 avoided / yr
• Missed Days of School / Work - 250 fewer / yr
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions - 1.5 Billion lbs avoided/absorbed
• Water Quality and Habitat Improvements - $8.5M
• 45 acres of restored wetlands
• 148 acres of wetlands created
• 11.1 miles of streams restored
61. Total Benefits of Green City, Clean Waters over the next 40 years
$2,500,000,000
Reduction in Construction-
Related Disruptions (0.2%)
Carbon Footprint Reduction
$2,000,000,000 (0.6%)
Energy Savings (1.0%)
$1,500,000,000 Avoided Social Costs from
Green Jobs (3.7%)
Air Quality (4.6%)
$1,000,000,000
Water Quality and Habitat
(14.5%)
Property Value Added (18%)
$500,000,000
Recreation (22%)
Heat Stress Mortality
$- Reduction (35%)
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62. Our Approach….
• Capture the first inch of each storm from 1/3rd of the
City’s impervious cover over the next 20 years
63. Our Approach….
• Capture the first inch of each storm from 1/3rd of the
City’s impervious cover over the next 20 years
• Achieve continuous improvement
64. Green Infrastructure = Continuous Improvement
85%
80%
Performance
75%
70%
65%
60%
55%
0 5 10 15 20
Time
Centralized Storage Green Infrastructure
Green/Transmission/Treatment
65. Our Approach….
• Capture the first inch of each storm from 1/3rd of the
City’s impervious cover over the next 20 years
• Achieve continuous improvement
• The more change that occurs through normal urban
renewal, the less it will cost
75. Our Approach….
• Capture the first inch of each storm from 1/3rd of the
City’s impervious cover over the next 20 years
• Achieve continuous improvement
• The more change that occurs through normal urban
renewal, the less it will cost
• Use incentives to increase the rate of change
78. Create Financial Incentives for Better Land
Management
Top 500 parcels in the combined sewered
area make up 12.3% of total impervious area
Gross Area = 13.5 acres Existing Charge = $ 5,000
Imperv Area = 11.5 acres New Charge = $ 30,000
79. Rewarding the Urban Form
Gross Area = 24,000 sq ft Existing Charge = $ 56,500
Imperv Area = 24,000 sq ft New Charge = $ 1,400
81. Putting it all together
• Green streets
• Green homes
• Green schools
• Green commerce
• Green institutions
• Green alleys
• Green parking
82. Overwhelming Public Support
“I love the idea! Please give us a greener
Philadelphia. It would make us healthier
and happier all around.”
- Response to the question, “Are you in favor of
greening?” (PWD “Green Neighborhoods
through Green Streets Survey.”)