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.
A presentation to the city of Iowa City about a program that can be implemented online to help the community be more sustainable in their everyday lives.
This documents relates to importance of water & simple ways preserving & using wisely.
Natural resources are limited.
Wise ways & renewable source of energy is way to life in future.
Live peaceful & healthy life.
Confluence is the bi-annual newsletter of the Westcountry Rivers Trust. Confluence is packed with all of the latest news on the work of the Trust and what is happening in river restoration and conservation across the Westcountry.
The Autumn 2011 edition contained special features on the Trust's approach to fisheries management and ecosystem services - as well as the usual news updates about all of our work on fisheries, fishing and catchment management.
A presentation to the city of Iowa City about a program that can be implemented online to help the community be more sustainable in their everyday lives.
This documents relates to importance of water & simple ways preserving & using wisely.
Natural resources are limited.
Wise ways & renewable source of energy is way to life in future.
Live peaceful & healthy life.
Confluence is the bi-annual newsletter of the Westcountry Rivers Trust. Confluence is packed with all of the latest news on the work of the Trust and what is happening in river restoration and conservation across the Westcountry.
The Autumn 2011 edition contained special features on the Trust's approach to fisheries management and ecosystem services - as well as the usual news updates about all of our work on fisheries, fishing and catchment management.
The environment polution whose responsibilitySuresh7862
All Information along with statistics needed to understand pollution and its effects. Steps to overcome pollution have also been enlisted in this presentation.
This presentation elaborates on the strategies and measures that can be applied in cities to become flood resilient. The presentation was initially part of my Inaugural Lecture at Rotterdam University of Applied Science in November 2012, but I removed it due to time restrictions. Next to my work on floating cities I also work on transformation of land based cities into floodproof eco cities. This presentation contains results from teh EU FP7 project FloodProBe en the work we did for waterboards in the Netherlands.
Batting Over Bottled Water Presentation [Ethics and Values Management]Aman Deng
1>BATTLING OVER BOTTLED WATER
Group Members:
Mahmud Ali G1326732
Aman Deng G1328408
Hamdi Omar G1325544
Naemah Roeti G1333964
Maha Mahmoud G1321578
Jihan Ali G1329694
2>Brief history of Nestlé's water battles in Michigan
In North America, bottled water companies like Nestlé Waters have been able to secure control over underground aquifers and streams by taking advantage of an outdated patch work of regulatory regimes.
Nestlé bottling plant in Mecosta started pumping 130 gallons of water every minute from the spring when they started, with plans to increase that to 400 gallons per minute, or about 262 million gallons a year.
Some local people were thrilled to have job opportunities, some however were not so much. They were concerned about the effects of pumping excessive amount of water.
3>Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC), a local Mecosta group filed suit contesting Nestlé's right to the spring's waters. MCWC ended its ten-year battle against Nestlé/Ice Mountain in 2009 and won.
Nestlé agreed to lower its spring pumping in Mecosta earlier in the spring during fish spawning and continue low pumping during the summer months to protect the already stressed stream and lake.
4>Question 1:Should people in Michigan be concerned about how, and by whom, the state’s ground water is used?
To survive all the living creatures need water. From trees to animals to insects, all need water to live.
If the ground water level of a place goes down trees will not be able to get water to grow, which will eventually lead the place to desert. As a result of that that area will become unsuitable for living.
5>In Michigan, Nestle planned to pump 400+ gallons of water per minute from the springs.
Pumping excessive water may and would lead to groundwater depletion or long-term water level depletion.
In long run dried up lands of Michigan would not be able to sustain trees or forests and living creatures in. Eventually it would lead to drought.
Which is why Michigan citizens had and still have all the rights to be concerned about how and by whom the state's ground is used. Their very sustainability depends on it.
6>Question 2 What issues of justice does this case raise?Identify and explain three
ethical issues in the case :
It is unfair to the resident and environment because Nestle is using their water supply without limitation and that may affect them in the future which will lead to water shortage, and they are the one who will be affected directly.
In addition, exporting of water could possibly damage American Indian Tribes fishery.
Another issue is the government is irresponsible :
It is stated by MCWC contends that the water itself is a public resource. It is resident’s right to use the water for long term for drinking, boating, swimming, or anything else rather than transport the water to other distant land for other use that is why they should shorten the lease into acceptable period whi
New Jersey Future and Pinelands Preservation Alliance hosted a workshop teaching communities all about New Jersey Future's New Jersey Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit. As part of this event, participants learned how to use the toolkit as a resource to plan, implement, and sustain green infrastructure in their town!
Mission: Magazine, Issue #6 - The Magazine that Addresses Critical Water IssuesXylem Inc.
Mission: Water is a complimentary magazine featuring the world's most current water issues and how people, like you, are tackling these ever-important challenges. Our mission is to share inspirational stories of determination, curiosity and discovery – and how great advancements are being made to better understand and protect our vital water resources.
This issue includes flood protection, harmful algal blooms, and red tide monitoring.
https://www.ysi.com/mission-water
Cities in delta areas are threatened by the impacts of climate change, urbanization and land subsidence. In this presentation, the concept of ‘Flood-proof Ecocity’ has been introduced to cope with the expected challenges and to summarize recent debates about future water cities. In a ‘Flood-proof Ecocity’ urban water systems are used as a source of energy, nutrients and local water supply. There is an important role for citizens as co-producers of the urban space. Citizens will also be involved in local water supply and energy production. Surface water in Flood-proof Ecocities is used for a wide variety of functions including floating buildings and water-based urban transport. The water manager is involved from the beginning of spatial developments. To adapt cities to extreme weather events and flood risk, flood control is integrated with urban development and urban renewal. Next to technical and design elements, this presentation has presented multiple building blocks that are needed for the governance of Flood-proof Ecocities. Important elements include: improving stakeholder receptivity, improving the competitiveness of innovations, creating a commercial markets for innovations, introducing new institutional mechanisms and facilitating new roles for citizens, technical professionals and designers.
This is my Inaugural Lecture about the Blue Revolution. It shows that we need to ralize urban expansions on the water and combine this with floating food production and floating algae biofuel production to deal with the challenges of the 21st century. Much of the work was developed with my colleagues at DeltaSync. We want to collaborate with people all over the world to develop pilot projects and expand on the water in a sustainable way. it goes much further than being self-sufficient. The purpose is to create a symbiosis between cities on land and water. Floating cities could use the waste CO2 and nutrients of land based cities in a productive way, providing at the same time affordable flood proof housing for the people. Most of the building blocks are there. We need to bring it together to make the next step. Because only a small part of the ocean is needed, the rest can become a nature reserve giving marine ecosystems a long term perspective on survival. A perspective that is currently lacking. We look forward to receive comments and ideas. Best regards,
Rutger de Graaf
Covering our appraoch to shelter over the years, what makes best costs sense, and why.. what people think, and what other issues they have to deal with - like the price of food and how they recovery after major disaster.
This piece of artwork is the second installment in my junior year portfolio. I drew these shoes as realistically as possible; Nikki, the owner of the shoes and my good friend, is a no-nonsense, extremely logical girl who wishes to become a brain surgeon. The close attention I paid to detail, from the shadows to the textures, reflects these aspects of her personality. The mediums used were chalk and colored pencil.
The environment polution whose responsibilitySuresh7862
All Information along with statistics needed to understand pollution and its effects. Steps to overcome pollution have also been enlisted in this presentation.
This presentation elaborates on the strategies and measures that can be applied in cities to become flood resilient. The presentation was initially part of my Inaugural Lecture at Rotterdam University of Applied Science in November 2012, but I removed it due to time restrictions. Next to my work on floating cities I also work on transformation of land based cities into floodproof eco cities. This presentation contains results from teh EU FP7 project FloodProBe en the work we did for waterboards in the Netherlands.
Batting Over Bottled Water Presentation [Ethics and Values Management]Aman Deng
1>BATTLING OVER BOTTLED WATER
Group Members:
Mahmud Ali G1326732
Aman Deng G1328408
Hamdi Omar G1325544
Naemah Roeti G1333964
Maha Mahmoud G1321578
Jihan Ali G1329694
2>Brief history of Nestlé's water battles in Michigan
In North America, bottled water companies like Nestlé Waters have been able to secure control over underground aquifers and streams by taking advantage of an outdated patch work of regulatory regimes.
Nestlé bottling plant in Mecosta started pumping 130 gallons of water every minute from the spring when they started, with plans to increase that to 400 gallons per minute, or about 262 million gallons a year.
Some local people were thrilled to have job opportunities, some however were not so much. They were concerned about the effects of pumping excessive amount of water.
3>Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC), a local Mecosta group filed suit contesting Nestlé's right to the spring's waters. MCWC ended its ten-year battle against Nestlé/Ice Mountain in 2009 and won.
Nestlé agreed to lower its spring pumping in Mecosta earlier in the spring during fish spawning and continue low pumping during the summer months to protect the already stressed stream and lake.
4>Question 1:Should people in Michigan be concerned about how, and by whom, the state’s ground water is used?
To survive all the living creatures need water. From trees to animals to insects, all need water to live.
If the ground water level of a place goes down trees will not be able to get water to grow, which will eventually lead the place to desert. As a result of that that area will become unsuitable for living.
5>In Michigan, Nestle planned to pump 400+ gallons of water per minute from the springs.
Pumping excessive water may and would lead to groundwater depletion or long-term water level depletion.
In long run dried up lands of Michigan would not be able to sustain trees or forests and living creatures in. Eventually it would lead to drought.
Which is why Michigan citizens had and still have all the rights to be concerned about how and by whom the state's ground is used. Their very sustainability depends on it.
6>Question 2 What issues of justice does this case raise?Identify and explain three
ethical issues in the case :
It is unfair to the resident and environment because Nestle is using their water supply without limitation and that may affect them in the future which will lead to water shortage, and they are the one who will be affected directly.
In addition, exporting of water could possibly damage American Indian Tribes fishery.
Another issue is the government is irresponsible :
It is stated by MCWC contends that the water itself is a public resource. It is resident’s right to use the water for long term for drinking, boating, swimming, or anything else rather than transport the water to other distant land for other use that is why they should shorten the lease into acceptable period whi
New Jersey Future and Pinelands Preservation Alliance hosted a workshop teaching communities all about New Jersey Future's New Jersey Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit. As part of this event, participants learned how to use the toolkit as a resource to plan, implement, and sustain green infrastructure in their town!
Mission: Magazine, Issue #6 - The Magazine that Addresses Critical Water IssuesXylem Inc.
Mission: Water is a complimentary magazine featuring the world's most current water issues and how people, like you, are tackling these ever-important challenges. Our mission is to share inspirational stories of determination, curiosity and discovery – and how great advancements are being made to better understand and protect our vital water resources.
This issue includes flood protection, harmful algal blooms, and red tide monitoring.
https://www.ysi.com/mission-water
Cities in delta areas are threatened by the impacts of climate change, urbanization and land subsidence. In this presentation, the concept of ‘Flood-proof Ecocity’ has been introduced to cope with the expected challenges and to summarize recent debates about future water cities. In a ‘Flood-proof Ecocity’ urban water systems are used as a source of energy, nutrients and local water supply. There is an important role for citizens as co-producers of the urban space. Citizens will also be involved in local water supply and energy production. Surface water in Flood-proof Ecocities is used for a wide variety of functions including floating buildings and water-based urban transport. The water manager is involved from the beginning of spatial developments. To adapt cities to extreme weather events and flood risk, flood control is integrated with urban development and urban renewal. Next to technical and design elements, this presentation has presented multiple building blocks that are needed for the governance of Flood-proof Ecocities. Important elements include: improving stakeholder receptivity, improving the competitiveness of innovations, creating a commercial markets for innovations, introducing new institutional mechanisms and facilitating new roles for citizens, technical professionals and designers.
This is my Inaugural Lecture about the Blue Revolution. It shows that we need to ralize urban expansions on the water and combine this with floating food production and floating algae biofuel production to deal with the challenges of the 21st century. Much of the work was developed with my colleagues at DeltaSync. We want to collaborate with people all over the world to develop pilot projects and expand on the water in a sustainable way. it goes much further than being self-sufficient. The purpose is to create a symbiosis between cities on land and water. Floating cities could use the waste CO2 and nutrients of land based cities in a productive way, providing at the same time affordable flood proof housing for the people. Most of the building blocks are there. We need to bring it together to make the next step. Because only a small part of the ocean is needed, the rest can become a nature reserve giving marine ecosystems a long term perspective on survival. A perspective that is currently lacking. We look forward to receive comments and ideas. Best regards,
Rutger de Graaf
Covering our appraoch to shelter over the years, what makes best costs sense, and why.. what people think, and what other issues they have to deal with - like the price of food and how they recovery after major disaster.
This piece of artwork is the second installment in my junior year portfolio. I drew these shoes as realistically as possible; Nikki, the owner of the shoes and my good friend, is a no-nonsense, extremely logical girl who wishes to become a brain surgeon. The close attention I paid to detail, from the shadows to the textures, reflects these aspects of her personality. The mediums used were chalk and colored pencil.
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1. How is the University of Redlands responding to the California
Drought? By Trevor Warren
The California Drought poses a major threat to our environment. Overpopulation,
production and consumption, and climate change have all been driving factors towards
the decrease in water. California is the biggest agricultural producer for the United States.
But while farming is one of the largest culprits of water use, many businesses have been
sucking the land dry of its moisture—including college campuses. Since the University
Redlands falls under this category, you may be asking: “what is our school doing to
respond to the California drought?” I am here to tell you.
First off, you may be wondering where our water comes from. It all starts with the
company Bear Valley Water. Normally, this water arrives from the dense snow packed
mountains of Big Bear through a series of pools before reaching ground level. The
drought, however, has changed things. Currently, there is no snow pack left on the
mountains, so pool levels are lower than usual. Usually, when these pools are full, there is
a river that runs through greek row. As of now, the only liquid hitting greek row’s dried
up river is the half gallon of Jack Daniel’s and Keystone Light from the night previous.
With people now realizing mother earth’s dehydration, measures are beginning to be
taken. The University of Redlands is no exception. On campus, water has been cut within
the past year by 35%. Most students are probably fascinated to hear this since they
thought the University of Redlands had to use a certain amount of water each day to
abide by their contract with Bear Valley Water. This contract has been rumored to be true
but it is nothing more than false. Director of Facilities Management Roger Cellini
confirmed this, firmly telling me, “there is no contract that tells us to use a certain amount
of water each day.”
Water use legitimately seems like a prime concern for Facilities Management. Rick
Quinbar, Associate Director of Central Utilities in Facilities Management told me, “we
look at our bills constantly. If we see something wrong in our average water use, we try
to correct the problem instantly.” Water use and economics go hand in hand. People in
higher positions of management like Rick Quinbar care about the amount of water use
because if water is overused then it affects his paycheck.
At the beginning of last summer, each dorm or apartment owned by the University of
Redlands was installed with low flow shower heads, low flow aerators, and most dorms
have low flow toilets. All these contribute to the conscious effort to reduce water. There
are many other projects in the works. One of the biggest projects is installing flush free
urinals.
The flush-free urinal project has been met with much opposition. The University of
Redlands is lacking modernization within their buildings. The location where urinals sit
on the walls have lower drain lines then what the flush-free urinals require in order to
function. If we install flush-free urinals then the school would therefore have to strip
2. apart the walls to completely replace the piping system, redo the tile to match the urinals,
expand bathrooms, and then install the flush-free urinals. Each urinal would cost about
$300, which is not that bad taken alone, but after factoring in all of the additional costs,
something thought to be easily payable would now require an investment of thousands of
dollars.
Many environmental projects need time. At a university where buildings are always being
used no matter the month, time is the enemy. Construction companies do not have the
work force to get certain things done before class is back in session. “The contractors
often tell us a longer time then we can actually do,” said Rick Quinbar. Every year the
Facilities Management is denied projects due to the amount of time needed to complete a
project. “It is just a hurdle,” said Rick Quinbar. Does this completely eliminate the
possibility of flush-free urinals in the future? No. But as of now, we do not have the time
or money to complete big projects like these. To become a “green campus” we need to be
patient because “It will eventually happen” said Rick Quinbar.
Another water-related issue in need of attention is nonnative grass and plants. “We live in
Southern California and it is a little ridiculous that we have this much grass,” said Perrin
Hess, a University of Redlands student working for Waste Management. It is, admittedly,
unwise to have planted a Mediterranean landscape within a desert climate. The use of
water gone to our landscape has been tremendous. In the years after the founding of the
University of Redlands, management has become more aware of the nature of this non-
drought tolerant landscape in that it clearly does not fit the climate of Redlands.
Within the past few years the conversion to non-potable water has virtually reached every
watering system on campus. Non-potable water is simply water unsuitable for drinking.
Other old watering systems have been replaced with drip technology. This has saved
thousands of gallons of water each month. In particular, “One shrub bed’s drip watering
system can save 200 gallons of water per week” said Roger Cellini. “Roger’s innovative
thinking has helped change the game,” said a grounds worker.
Additionally, older landscapes are now being replaced to fit our climate. With the
installation of drought tolerant plants and the cutting back of grass, water use has
staggeringly dropped. “I could honestly say our water use this year has dropped 250,000
gallons a month,” said Jeff McClintock, Grounds and Waste Management Manager.
Certain efforts to reduce grass acreage have all been fairly recent. One recent measure
involves reducing the acreage of grass on the quad. For instance, all trees on the quad
now have mulch rings around them. This project has eliminated an entire acre of grass
from the quad. Within this year, other projects are planned to reduce grass acreage. One
of these projects includes the removal of 2 or more acres of grass from the side of East
and West Colton Drive. Strategic projects like these all have meaningful contributions in
the effort to shift the University of Redlands to a more sustainable campus.
Nothing insurmountable is hindering the University of Redlands from being more
environmentally conscious. But, as Roger Cellini has said, “there is only a bucket of
3. money that can go so far.” He is right. We can’t demand unlimited improvement with
limited financial resources. In light of this, we must take action and act as a community,
not as a partisan group divided with management. In fact, we are causing many problems
which waste management’s time. “We get sidetracked with other tasks. We spend 40
hours a week picking up trash. If the students stopped polluting, I could have more of my
workers working on more environmentally friendly projects,” said Jeff McClintock.
Big changes are happening within our climate. It is literally dying right in front of us. I
don’t know how many more negative environmental events need to happen in order for
society as a whole to recognize that shit is getting real. This applies to both global and
local scales. With regard to our campus, is there more that needs to be done? Of course
there is. But we must keep in mind that we have a finite amount of resources with which
to work. For this reason, working civilly with facilities to bring about a more sustainable
campus is vitally important. At the same time, we must also make a conscious effort
within ourselves to be more environmentally friendly, because at the end of the day
individuals are the ones who create the initial foundation upon which change is built.