From Rebuilding to Resilience: Observations from New Orleansjuliekannai
by Nathan Lott, Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans
This talk covers strategies tried in New Orleans after Katrina, both successful and not, and provides lessons learned.
From Rebuilding to Resilience: Observations from New Orleansjuliekannai
by Nathan Lott, Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans
This talk covers strategies tried in New Orleans after Katrina, both successful and not, and provides lessons learned.
Wetlands Conservation: River Sosiani Rehabilitation ProjectESD UNU-IAS
Case Study presentation: Wetlands Conservation: River Sosiani Rehabilitation Project
Ms. Sally Kibos, RCE North Rift
11th Global RCE Conference
7-9 December, 2018
Cebu, the Philippines
Most Philippine cities have drainage systems of some kind. There are no separate storm water and waste water (sewerage) systems. Wastewater from septic systems freely mixes with the stormwater. In practice this is not as bad as it sounds as the volume of storm water is large and may well flush out the drainage system and its contents into the streams and rivers. The installation and maintenance of drainage systems (along with roads and water systems), is one of the major responsibility of local government
Concerns for Aggregate pits and groundwater protection in Ontario. Reviewing risks to Ontario's GDP and farmland and moraine systems in Southwestern Ontario.
This presentation was given at the Catchment Management Network meeting on February 24th 2017. The Catchment Management Network consists of the EPA, all of Ireland's Local Authorities, and other public bodies involved in looking after Ireland's catchments, sub-catchments and water bodies. For more information about this work see www.catchments.ie
Wetlands Conservation: River Sosiani Rehabilitation ProjectESD UNU-IAS
Case Study presentation: Wetlands Conservation: River Sosiani Rehabilitation Project
Ms. Sally Kibos, RCE North Rift
11th Global RCE Conference
7-9 December, 2018
Cebu, the Philippines
Most Philippine cities have drainage systems of some kind. There are no separate storm water and waste water (sewerage) systems. Wastewater from septic systems freely mixes with the stormwater. In practice this is not as bad as it sounds as the volume of storm water is large and may well flush out the drainage system and its contents into the streams and rivers. The installation and maintenance of drainage systems (along with roads and water systems), is one of the major responsibility of local government
Concerns for Aggregate pits and groundwater protection in Ontario. Reviewing risks to Ontario's GDP and farmland and moraine systems in Southwestern Ontario.
This presentation was given at the Catchment Management Network meeting on February 24th 2017. The Catchment Management Network consists of the EPA, all of Ireland's Local Authorities, and other public bodies involved in looking after Ireland's catchments, sub-catchments and water bodies. For more information about this work see www.catchments.ie
HUG Siphon System
• The water level behind the Otto Holden Hydro Dam on the Ottawa River can be maintained at 179.5 m above sea level, while the water level in Lake Huron is 176.5 m. This difference of 3 m is the basis of water transfer through a HUG Siphon System for 171 km.
• The HUG Siphon system can be buried under any populated built up areas. HUG can also be raised to189.5 m above sea level.
• It will be difficult to say NO to Water Export Revenue of $433 Million/year at the auction price of $0.13/ m3s for 135 m3
• Each of the 150 million people whose needs could be served by the project would pay the reasonable rate of $50 per year. In this case, annual income from the exports would be $7.5 billion.
• The total initial cost of this mega project is $347.5 + $232.25 = $580 million.
• HUG has a potential of Hydro Revenue of $210 Million/yr (11 kW/m2)
• HUG has a potential of Water Export Revenue of 56 m3s@auction price of $0.13/ m3s of $180 Million/yr / HUG System
• Water Export Revenue of 2000 m3s = $6.4 Billion/yr for 35 HUG Siphon Systems
• Return on Investment : $180 +$210 / $580 million = 67%/yr for 1 HUG System.
• An alternative desalination plant (1.2 m3s) is twice the price, because it is energy intensive and it incurs high-pollution costs that could escalate as energy price increase.
• Nine bodies of 265 m3s water share the same environment: only a distance of 1.5 m to 12 km apart, which can be diverted to Lake Superior.
Trends in Social and Environmental Responsibility PresentationKlangpanya
The Mekong River is essential to the livelihoods of more than 260 million people in China and Southeast Asia and supports plentiful and varied ecosystems. However, Southeast Asia’s decades long period of economic growth has increased the demand on water and energy resources in the region. This has put the Mekong River on the spot as a primary water and hydropower source in the region. Consequent construction of dams and other interventions in the river’s ecosystem has led to physical changes in the Mekong River Basin over the last five to ten years. These Interventions in the river system has raised various concerns for policy makers and environmental conservationists alike. However, there is little agreement among experts and policy makers on the primary causes of these changes and the transboundary nature of the Mekong River complicates the search for sustainable solutions. This report aims to shed light on the impact of the changing Mekong River on Thailand and the intricate causes for its change through interviews with experts and locals in affected areas. Based on this analysis the report further makes recommendations for ways forward that ensure the inclusive and sustainable development of the Mekong River basin.
Win Naing Tun presented on a project that giz is conducting in the upper Ayeyawady River in Myanmar that looks at the impact that hydropower development would have in Kachin state.
Three presentations from Session 34 of the Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy, co-hosted by IWRP, the GIZ-MRC Network for Sustainable Hydropower Development in the Mekong countries, the Natural Heritage Institute and Deltares. The Mekong region is undergoing significant change in water resources development for multiple purposes, including hydropower, agriculture, fisheries production and navigation. This also requires the management of the river and its life- and livelihood-giving ecosystems for long term sustainability. Without coordinated development and effective river basin management, the Mekong Basin is exposed to many risks to water resources and associated ecosystems, including floods and drought, deterioration of water quality, reduction of sedimentation loads and extinction of many aquatic species. This session provided an opportunity to recognize these challenges in river basin management and identify development and management needs to tackle these issues.
Sydney’s Water - Grey water, Water efficiency programs, Desalination Plant an...Biocity Studio
Sydney’s water demand is currently met by 11 major damns, recycled water and water pumped from the Shoalhaven River. Warragamba dam provides Sydney with 80% of Sydney drinking water supply. Sydney’s high demand for water has forced the NSW Government to come up with a Metropolitan Plan for Sydney, by creating more Grey water, Water efficiency programs, Desalination Plant and early lead detection.
讓我們從矽谷知名創投,亦是 Netscape 瀏覽器創辦人 Marc Andreessen 近日發表一篇名為「建設的時刻到了」(It’s time to build)的文章開始談起。在這篇文章中,Andreessen 認為,面對新冠肺炎的疫情,美國社會資本、有技術,卻忘記了建設的價值,淪於互鬥、扯後腿以及從現有狀態榨取利潤,因此社會停滯不前,疫情威脅不散。他呼籲(美國)回到根本,用建設與創新突破困境。
是的,Andreessen說:「承認吧,我們錯了,我們錯誤地設計過去二十年的發展方式」。「設計失誤」(design failure),就是本週重點。而這在不同材料所構築的使用體驗中都會出現類似狀況。
首先,我們每天都會看到很多單車騎士,通勤族、菜籃族、公路車騎士、單速車文青,他們在我們的眼中可能就是不同單車類型的消費者,可是Aldred卻試圖以「單車公民權」(cycle citizenship)這概念把「消費政治化」(P.3),為什麼?
然後,順著這思路,Wickman為什麼認為不同的交通模式能開啟不同類型的公共空間、社會互動,從而連結不同的公民權(P.8)?請試著以這思路重讀Montgomery所提到波哥大BRT與路面設計的例子。
接著,Aldred從環境意識、自我照顧、扎根地方、社區連結四個面向討論劍橋這地方的單車騎士自我想像什麼才是一個好的單車騎士。那,你會怎麼看「好騎士,四原則」?台灣的好騎士法則又有哪些?
最後,Aldred認為一個單車友善、緊湊佈局的都市能讓單車騎士隨騎隨停隨行己意地將都市空間區分成不同的使用模式,但對一個不友善單車的城市來說,這改變如何可能?各位的提案可以做出什麼協助?從不「消費者公民權」(consumer citizenship)或「接近都市的權力」(right to the city)的概念來看,使用者在你們的專案中,是否有什麼被賦權(empower)的可能?
首先,Stehlin說他的文章主要論點是指出「自行車設施如何成為宜居(livability)生活論述基礎」以及「高科技公司如何與單車倡議團體合作並以此吸引員工」,請你試著整理他如何推論這兩個主要論點。
其次,上週我們討論過Zukin如何分析純正性與仕紳化之間的關係,請問你在Stehlin的文章中能不能以Zukin之眼找到那些要素(包括「物件」、「文化」、「權利」、「心態」),並整理之間的關係?
然後,藉著Stehlin的文章,我們把分析轉向「自行車道」這個技術物上,而Winner在他的文章中指出在都市計畫史中有許多案例的設計規劃是或明或顯地具有政治目的(回想過去兩週在談的Moses),那你覺得Stehlin文中所舉的舊金山自行車道案例是否也具有政治目的?更進一步的問,「技術」與「政治」之間的關係是?
最後,Stehlin在文末將討論拉高到「都市權」的層次上(P.133),認為自行車道爭議關乎我們把「宜居」當作使用價值還是交換價值?而前者則與Lefebvre「接近城市的權利」(right to the city)相扣連,甚至跟上週Zukin說:「我們需要的是,由下而上為此(對抗市場)建立起政治意志,並且在包括許多中產階級內的廣泛選民公眾中,建立起這種抵抗」相關。為什麼?你怎麼想?該怎麼辦?
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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Here is Gabe Whitley's response to my defamation lawsuit for him calling me a rapist and perjurer in court documents.
You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
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The Scale Politics of Urban Water Governance: Beijing and the South–to-North Water Transfer Project
1. The Scale Politics of Urban Water Governance
Beijing and the South-to-North Water Transfer Project
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2. Outlines
✤ Introduction
✤ Urbanization of water and water politics
✤ Beijing’s water: historical legacies
✤ Beijing and the “South-to-North Water Transfer Project”
✤ A new governance mechanism is emerging?
✤ Conclusion
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3. Introduction
✤ This paper discusses the issues regard how rapid industrialization
and urbanization generated high degree of water consumption that,
triggering by the building of various water supply civil engineering,
caused conflict/tension between cities and rural areas as well as
between central and local states.
✤ Case: Beijing vs. the South-to-North Water Transfer Project
✤ Urban Political Ecology Perspective
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4. China: Water Scarcity Problems
✤ Rapid economic development after 1980s
✤ The increase of water consumption
✤ Uneven rainfall distribution
✤ The arid north, and humid south
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6. Beijing: Thirsty Capital
✤ Located in the dry northern part of China
✤ Rapid urbanization and industrialization
✤ Water, we need more water
✤ The South-to-North Water Transfer Project
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7. Research Questions
✤ How has the Chinese state handled the disputes on water demands
from related provinces?
✤ How has Beijing city compensated those rural regions where water
was diversified to feed its need?
✤ Has China developed a new type of governance to solve the dispute
of water supply along the affected provinces where the Sou-North
water diversification project?
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8. Hydraulic Society and State Power
✤ Wittfogel: The capital investment and labor coordination required for
substantial water control demand the rise of a strong and hierarchical
power center which he called the “despotic” states of the Orient. (ex:
China)
✤ Worster: The “capitalist state mode” of production on water control is
dominated by two powerful groups: wealthy agricultural capitalists
and “water bureaucrats.” (ex: The Western US)
✤ Swyngedow: After 1990s, water became Privatized, Commodified,
Globalized. (ex: Latin America)
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11. Urbanization of Water
✤ Not only social, political and economic processes, but also the
interaction of social and nature.
✤ Swygngedow: Urbanization of water looks at urban hydraulic
environments as socio-physical constructions in which urban water is
organized through a combination of social historical and metabolic-
ecological process.
✤ The re-territorialization of water, the rise of scalar politics.
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12. Beijing’s water
legacies
✤ Located in Northern China
with Yongding river and
Chaobai river
✤ Capital city of China from Qin
Dynasty (1644-1912)
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13. 1949-1970s
✤ Beijing dominant era
✤ Dams: Guanting and Miyung
✤ Wells: everywhere in the city
✤ Policy: Industrialized!!
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14. 1980s-1990s
✤ Local competition era
✤ Rapid Industrialization
✤ Crowded Urbanization
✤ Water Pollution
✤ Water Shortages
✤ Fragmented Authoritarian
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15. Fragmented Water
Management System
State Council of
P.R. China
Ministry of Water Ministry of
Resources Environmental
Protection
✤ Tiao-Kuai (條塊) Inter-
7 River Bansin
governmental relation Commissions
Provincial
Governments
✤ No Water Law before 1980s
Bureau of
Bureau of Water Environmental
Resources Protection
✤ Water Act promulgated 1988
City & County
✤ Water Pollution Amendment Governments
Act amended in 1996
Bureau of Water Bureau of
Resources Environmental
Protection
✤ But local governments still
compete to each other.
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16. Water shortage crisis in Beijing
✤ In the late 1990s, seven consecutive years led Miyung and Guanting
reservoirs’ storage had sharply shrunk.
✤ In the fragmented water management system, adjusted the water
prices couldn’t solve the problem.
✤ But, Beijing government promotes FAB, TFT-LCD and even Olympic
✤ So, where is the CLEAN WATER?
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17. Water consumption and Water resource in Beijing (Unit: One billion cubic meter)
60
45
30
15
0
1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Water Consumption Water Resource
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18. Water Consumption in Beijing (Unit: One billion cubic meter)
60
45
30
15
0
1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Water Consumption Agricultural Irrigation
Industrial Use Urban Domestic Use
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19. The South-to-North Water
Transfer Project
✤ 1952: Chairman Mao suggested
✤ 2002: the overall plan of the project began to take place
✤ There are EASTERN, CENTRAL, and (WESTERN) Routes
✤ Beijing is the terminal of the Central Routes
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22. Beijing vs. Hebei: Urban vs. Rural
✤ Not just a water diversion project, but also a task to prevent water
from environmental pollution.
✤ The Beijing government asks the farmers in Hebei: no more chemical
pesticide, no more ecological harmful farming techniques, and
reducing the farming area.
✤ Dead lock: poorly irrigation skill + national food security policy
✤ So the conflict still going...
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23. Beijing vs. Water-Supply Provinces
✤ Immigration: in Henan and Hubei, 330,000 people have to move.
✤ Compensation: each person can get 600 RMB per year but hard to get
job in the new place.
✤ Fiscal burden: for the local government, resettlement costs is too
heavy and industrial development is forbidden.
✤ Ecological impact: not only to the water source area, but also along
the canal and the downstream of Han River.
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24. A new governance mechanism is
emerging?
✤ Political, the “South-to-North Water Diversion Project Committee
Office” was composed in 2003.
✤ Director: the Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council
✤ Members: Minister of the relevant ministries, the governors of the
People’s Bank and the Development Bank, and the relevant provinces.
✤ Missions: Policy, Financing, Monitor, and Cooperation.
✤ Six Units at the Central level
✤ Project Construction Committees at the Local level
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25. A new governance mechanism is
emerging?
✤ Economical, three types of Company compose the market mechanism
✤ Water Transfer Company: state-owned company, invested by central
government and relevant local governments with different ratio.
✤ Water Resources Company: invested by the water-supply province
government, sell the water to the Water Transfer Company.
✤ Water Company: some state-owned some private, buy the water from
the Water Transfer Company and sell it to the citizen.
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26. A new governance mechanism is
emerging?
✤ Ecological Compensation
✤ First one: the water-receiving areas should help the water-supply
areas to solve its economic problem.
✤ Second one: the market-oriented compensation. Rise of Beijing water
price to compensate water contribution areas.
✤ Beijing: provided 50 million RMB to Henan + signed economic
cooperation agreement.
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28. Conclusion
✤ This paper argues that the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in
fact has strengthened the Beijing-centered central-peripheral relation
✤ Such an “artificial water-shed” strengthen the injustice distribution of
natural resources between Beijing and other inland areas.
✤ Beijing should re-orient its development path.
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