FACED WITH CLIMATE change and environmental degradation many cities are turning to Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) solutions to enhance climate resilience as well as restore the health of ecosystems.
FACED WITH CLIMATE change and environmental degradation many cities are turning to Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) solutions to enhance climate resilience as well as restore the health of ecosystems.
Blue and Green Cities The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban...Robert Brears
This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. The author argues that urban water managers have traditionally relied on grey infrastructural solutions to mitigate risks with numerous economic and environmental consequences. Brears explores the role urban water managers have in implementing blue-green infrastructure to reduce ecological damage and mitigate risk. The case studies in this book illustrate how cities, of differing climates, lifestyles and income-levels, have implemented policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water, wastewater and stormwater sustainably to reduce environmental degradation and enhance resilience to climate change. This new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably will be of interest to those working on water conservation and policy.
The Campus as a Living Laboratory for Climate Solutions - Chuck Morgan, associate director, building and landscape services, University of California, San Diego - Presentation 1/3 Leading by Example
Water Wednesday - Murray Darling Basin Plan: Striking the right balance
The Water Research Centre in conjunction with Australian Water Association SA Branch presented Water Wednesday on 29 February 2012.
This special joint Water Wednesday forum featured a presentation from Professor Barry Hart, an independent member of the Murray Darling Basin Authority, on the Draft Basin Plan which is currently out for public review.
The Kailash Ecovillage project converting human excreta into organic foodstuf...Kimberly L. King
Since March 2014, a sustainably focused community located on a 0.7 hectares site in Portland, Oregon, USA, has
been undertaking an experimental composting toilet system modeled after the Water Efficiency and Sanitation
Standard (WE-Stand) set out by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO).
This system collects urine and hot composts human excreta in a dry-composting toilet system for eventual
use on the community’s organic gardens. The system design reduces the need to access municipal water,
sewer, and electrical infrastructure, enhancing emergency preparedness. It conserves an otherwise wasted
nutrient flow, and safely produces a valuable compost. The system consists of urine collection vessels, multiple
portable collection containers for excreta, toilet paper, and additive, and a compost processor. Urine diversion
has allowed the community to reclaim nitrogen and other nutrients otherwise lost in conventional sewage systems,
resulting in large savings of potable water and significant carbon sequestration via topsoil creation. Logs
showed thermophilic compost temperatures. Compost and urine pathogen testing met American National Standards
Institute and National Sanitation Foundation Standard 41 requirements.
This presentation was given at the EPA’s National Water Event 2019, which took place on 29 and 30 May 2019 in Galway. This presentation by Sharon Kennedy from An Forum Uisce is on engaging society in water challenge.
Wastewater Treatment Trends in the 21st Century - George Tchobanoglous, Unive...marcus evans Network
George Tchobanoglous, University of California, Davis - Speaker at the marcus evans Water & Wastewater Management Summit, held in Summerlin, NV, May 3-4, 2012, delivered his presentation on Wastewater Treatment Trends in the 21st Century
Irrigation futures - Regional Partnerships address water security in wester...Christina Parmionova
Regional partnerships address water security in Western Sydney
This article by Basant Maheshwari and Bruce Simmons featured in the Irrigation Australia Journal, Spring 2009, Volume 24, No. 3.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures System Harmonisation program has developed a project titled Water and Irrigation Strategy Enhancement through Regional Partnerships (WISER) to establish a system harmonisation process in Western Sydney, NSW. The project is about working with regional irrigation partners to increase profitability and reduce the environmental footprint of irrigation systems. Here we provide an overview of the System Harmonisation Program and a case study of the WISER project in Western Sydney.
2017 wwtp presentation y20170524 final linkedinnonotesJim Dodenhoff
Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) are becoming valuable platforms for innovative water and energy technologies. There are a number of key drivers for end users that are encouraging a more system based approach to water and energy management on WWTP campuses including: drought (and the corresponding need for greater water reclamation), integration of renewables and storage, energy efficiency and demand response practices to match load with energy supply, overarching decarbonization strategies, system resiliency and reliability, and higher standards for water quality.
This presentation describes the transformation of WasteWater Treatment Centers to Resource Centers.
Blue and Green Cities The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban...Robert Brears
This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. The author argues that urban water managers have traditionally relied on grey infrastructural solutions to mitigate risks with numerous economic and environmental consequences. Brears explores the role urban water managers have in implementing blue-green infrastructure to reduce ecological damage and mitigate risk. The case studies in this book illustrate how cities, of differing climates, lifestyles and income-levels, have implemented policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water, wastewater and stormwater sustainably to reduce environmental degradation and enhance resilience to climate change. This new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably will be of interest to those working on water conservation and policy.
The Campus as a Living Laboratory for Climate Solutions - Chuck Morgan, associate director, building and landscape services, University of California, San Diego - Presentation 1/3 Leading by Example
Water Wednesday - Murray Darling Basin Plan: Striking the right balance
The Water Research Centre in conjunction with Australian Water Association SA Branch presented Water Wednesday on 29 February 2012.
This special joint Water Wednesday forum featured a presentation from Professor Barry Hart, an independent member of the Murray Darling Basin Authority, on the Draft Basin Plan which is currently out for public review.
The Kailash Ecovillage project converting human excreta into organic foodstuf...Kimberly L. King
Since March 2014, a sustainably focused community located on a 0.7 hectares site in Portland, Oregon, USA, has
been undertaking an experimental composting toilet system modeled after the Water Efficiency and Sanitation
Standard (WE-Stand) set out by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO).
This system collects urine and hot composts human excreta in a dry-composting toilet system for eventual
use on the community’s organic gardens. The system design reduces the need to access municipal water,
sewer, and electrical infrastructure, enhancing emergency preparedness. It conserves an otherwise wasted
nutrient flow, and safely produces a valuable compost. The system consists of urine collection vessels, multiple
portable collection containers for excreta, toilet paper, and additive, and a compost processor. Urine diversion
has allowed the community to reclaim nitrogen and other nutrients otherwise lost in conventional sewage systems,
resulting in large savings of potable water and significant carbon sequestration via topsoil creation. Logs
showed thermophilic compost temperatures. Compost and urine pathogen testing met American National Standards
Institute and National Sanitation Foundation Standard 41 requirements.
This presentation was given at the EPA’s National Water Event 2019, which took place on 29 and 30 May 2019 in Galway. This presentation by Sharon Kennedy from An Forum Uisce is on engaging society in water challenge.
Wastewater Treatment Trends in the 21st Century - George Tchobanoglous, Unive...marcus evans Network
George Tchobanoglous, University of California, Davis - Speaker at the marcus evans Water & Wastewater Management Summit, held in Summerlin, NV, May 3-4, 2012, delivered his presentation on Wastewater Treatment Trends in the 21st Century
Irrigation futures - Regional Partnerships address water security in wester...Christina Parmionova
Regional partnerships address water security in Western Sydney
This article by Basant Maheshwari and Bruce Simmons featured in the Irrigation Australia Journal, Spring 2009, Volume 24, No. 3.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures System Harmonisation program has developed a project titled Water and Irrigation Strategy Enhancement through Regional Partnerships (WISER) to establish a system harmonisation process in Western Sydney, NSW. The project is about working with regional irrigation partners to increase profitability and reduce the environmental footprint of irrigation systems. Here we provide an overview of the System Harmonisation Program and a case study of the WISER project in Western Sydney.
2017 wwtp presentation y20170524 final linkedinnonotesJim Dodenhoff
Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) are becoming valuable platforms for innovative water and energy technologies. There are a number of key drivers for end users that are encouraging a more system based approach to water and energy management on WWTP campuses including: drought (and the corresponding need for greater water reclamation), integration of renewables and storage, energy efficiency and demand response practices to match load with energy supply, overarching decarbonization strategies, system resiliency and reliability, and higher standards for water quality.
This presentation describes the transformation of WasteWater Treatment Centers to Resource Centers.
In 2008 the world witnessed multiple crises including a food one which resulted in unrest in many areas of the world. These tensions may well foreshadow future challenges as they relate to providing sufficient food for
six, rising to nine billion people. Unless we get more intelligent in the way we manage agriculture, the world is likely to head into deeply challenging times.
Water and the good and services provided by ecosystems are part of this urgent need for an intelligent management response not least in relation to food production.
The Millennium Ecosystems Assessment report, in which
UNEP played an important role, demonstrated the links between healthy ecosystems and food production. These include providing food, water, fiber, genetic material;
regulating soil erosion, purifying water and wastes, regulating floods, regulating diseases and pests; and
supporting the formation of soil, photosynthesis and
nutrient recycling.
Water is an integral part of ecosystems functioning. Its
presence or absence has a bearing on the ecosystemsservices they provide. Relatively larger amounts of water are used to generate the ecosystem services needed to
ensure provisioning of basic supplies of food, fodder and
fibers. Today rainfed and irrigated agriculture use 7,600
of freshwater globally to provide food. An additional
1,600 km3 of water is required annually to meet the
millennium development goal on hunger reduction which addresses only half of the people suffering from hunger.
This workshop will present the results of a project conducted by the Council of Great Lakes Industries and funded by the Great Lakes Protection Fund to evaluate the applicability of global water stewardship tools at Great Lakes industrial facilities. Workshop presenters will review the results of pilot tests at four facilities — the Consumers Energy power plant in Grand Haven, Michigan; The Escanaba Paper Co. mill in Escanaba, Michigan; a Shell petroleum refinery in Sarnia, Ontario; and a Lafarge cement plant in Bath, Ontario — and provide an opportunity for participants to discuss water stewardship measures, public disclosure practices, and the potential for identifying water stewardship goals and tracking methodologies.
Tools for Assessing Industrial Water Stewardship-Phenicie, 2012
NPSI Harvest Notes
1. harvest Note
Knowledge
Harvest
The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation and its
predecessors have invested in irrigation research for nearly two
decades covering topics at the field, farm and catchment scales; and
issues ranging from storage and delivery to on-farm application,
environmental risks and recycling. A team was commissioned to
‘harvest’ the information and insights from across that researchand
the resultant reports are now available.
The main Knowledge Harvest products are:
Overview
Irrigation in australia: Facts and figures (pn22088)
• Vital role for Australian irrigation
Facts and figures about irrigation and water use in Australia. Basic
• Irrigation in Australia: Facts and figures
information of the type needed for a sound discussion of the
• Planning tools: Future scenarios and ecological risk assessments future of irrigation in Australia.
• Water use efficiency
planning tools: Future scenarios and
Delivery systems ecological risk assessments (npsI-3-09)
• Modernisation: Enhancing water supply systems. Insights into methods to assess the ecological risks of irrigation
• Modernising Irrigation Forum DVD and to contemplate the future of irrigation regions – their supply
systems, water use, industries, environments and communities.
On-Farm Tools to help industry and regional groups plan for the future.
• Irrigation Essentials: Research and innovation for Australian
irrigators water use efficiency (npsI-4-09)
Definitions and explanations of water use efficiency at scales from
Recycling catchment, to delivery system, to on-farm. The generic term ‘water
• Using recycled water for irrigation use efficiency’ is often used without exploration of associated
concepts and differing interpretations, however, these are clearly
explained in this report, making it a primer for conversations about
KnOwleDge HaRvest pRODucts irrigation.
vital Role for australian Irrigation (pn22081)
An overview of the growing global demand for food, the
Modernisation: enhancing water supply systems
(npsI-2-09)
importance of irrigation in meeting that demand, and the
competition between different users for increasingly scarce water Key insights from recent programs to rehabilitate and automate
resources. Australian researchers and irrigators have a vital role to irrigation supply systems and a summary of issues affecting
play in promoting global food security. modernisation which is a key to ensuring there is sufficient water
for irrigators, urban users and the environment. Research needs are
discussed and these highlight the importance of flexible systems
for a dynamic future.
NPsI KNowledge harvest www.NPsI.gov.au
2. Modernising Irrigation Forum DvD and advisors, and the report provides readers with signposts to
information that is more issue, commodity or regionally specific.
A DVD of field and workshop presentations from a national forum
about irrigation modernisation. Snapshots of the latest research
and its applications for modernisation provide a ready introduction using recycled water for irrigation (pn30123)
to the latest information on this crucial topic. See http://npsi.gov. An overview of issues associated with recycling water, along with
au/products/pn30149 and http://npsi.gov.au/products/pn30150. information about the challenges and opportunities involved and
directions to commodity-specific guidelines. Useful information
Irrigation essentials (npsI-1-09) for anyone interested in recycling water, whether they be policy
makers, community members or irrigators.
A compendium of research findings to improve on-farm irrigation
efficiency, presented in the form of 11 essential ingredients for
sustainable irrigation. These principles will assist all irrigators
About the NPSI Knowledge Harvest
The NPSI Knowledge Harvest brings Key themes within the Harvest are: • On-farm Irrigation Essentials – principles
together information from across the for efficient irrigation.
• Irrigation Overview – facts, figures and
National Program for Sustainable Irrigation • Recycled Water – recycling treated
key concepts about irrigation.
(NPSI) projects, highlighting key findings and effluent and stormwater for irrigation.
promoting wider understanding. • Water Delivery Systems – the efficient
storage and distribution of water for This note provides an overview of the main
irrigation. products from the Harvest.
Other documents in the series may be downloaded from www.npsi.gov.au
NPSI’s partners
Australian Government
Department of Environment,
Water, Heritage and the Arts
Australian Government
Sugar Research and
Development Corporation
Government of Western Australia * Land & Water Australia was a
parner until the end of July 2009.
Department of Water
SUBS/BP/2009-12
NPsI KNowledge harvest www.NPsI.gov.au