water saving Articles
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Operational data of the Star City rainwater harvesting system and its role as a climate change adaptation and a social influence
The Star City rainwater harvesting system (RWHS) was featured in the December, 2008, issue of Water 21. The article highlighted that the RWHS has a 3,000 m3 rainwater tank used in water saving, flood mitigation, and emergency response. Since then, many news media, public officials, and people from both South Korea and abroad have visited the RWHS. In this paper, two years of the system's ...
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Systematic methodology and practice of a co-governance program for five waters in a typical area of China
A co-governance program for five waters (CPFW), including sewage treatment, flood prevention, drainage, water supply and saving, is an innovative concept in water resource management. It includes current and near future system projects and advanced management policies for water utilization and protection. In this paper, the scientific connotation of CPFW is explained by multidisciplinary ...
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Real-time optimisation of the Hoa Binh reservoir, Vietnam
Multi-purpose reservoirs often have to be managed according to conflicting objectives, which requires efficient tools for trading-off the objectives. This paper proposes a multi-objective simulation-optimisation approach that couples off-line rule curve optimisation with on-line real-time optimisation. First, the simulation-optimisation framework is applied for optimising reservoir operating ...
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Hangzhou Wuyang District - Case Study
Project content: Fuyang District “Five Waters Governance” information integrated management platform consists of three systems: Hechang Management, Wushui Monitoring, and Fuyang Water Control APP. It will treat industrial wastewater, agricultural non-point source pollution, rural domestic sewage and urban sewage. Pump station, river water quality, Shantang Reservoir, flood control ...
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Alert Labs and Water Matrix partner to save property managers millions of litres in wasted water
Business owners often seem to accept that any level of water usage is normal, not realizing that water is being wasted and that they are overpaying due to undetected inefficiencies. To help optimize water usage at residential and commercial properties, Alert Labs, manufacturer of smart building sensors and software, and Water Matrix, water conservation experts, announced their partnership today. ...
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Did you know businesses can supply their own water ?
The uptake of water self supply licences by businesses in England, buying water and wastewater services at wholesale prices may turn from a trickle to a ...
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Why Closing a Power Plant Could Be Part of Austin`s Water Solution
The funny thing about Walter E. Long Lake is that most people don't know it exists. The lake, tucked into a rural-feeling part of Northeast Austin is big, by Austin standards. It can hold more water than Austin's two central city lakes -- Lake Austin and Lady Bird Lake -- combined. It was created to host a power plant, which it's done for for nearly 50 years. That's how it got its other name: ...
By Ceres
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How better weather forecasting can help stretch water supplies
Reservoir managers look to storm predictions to make smarter choices about dam operations Last year, New York City faced an unusual situation. An epic winter in the city’s Delaware River watershed brought heavy snow and very little rain. Stubborn cold meant there was no snowmelt to refill water-supply reservoirs, even as the city’s 9.5 million residents were draining them dry. A ...
By Ensia
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As the demand for water rises, we need to re-think global water storage
As Europe swelters in unprecedented summer heat, water stress is a major and growing concern. The same is true for many places across the globe. The need for more water storage is obvious but simply building more dams is not the solution. Growing populations and economic development are driving the need for more water storage globally. Climate change – modified rainfall patterns, increased ...
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Rainwater harvesting and management – policy and regulations in Germany
This paper discusses the most important policies and regulations supporting the decentralized management, harvesting and utilization of rainwater in Germany, where such measures have been increasingly applied during the last few decades. The development and implementation of specific policies and regulations contributed significantly to that trend. They also work as incentives for the ...
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Guelph reduces water use 18%, resolves bill disputes faster - Case Study
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Alert Labs won an RFP to help the City of Guelph with water conservation efforts. The Flowie water sensor kit rebate program offered residents a $50 rebate off Alert Labs’ Flowie and Floodie sensors. As a result of the program, water service technicians increased efficiency when resolving bill disputes, a local business saved thousands in wasted water, and water use was ...
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Why Is Water Level Monitoring Important?
Monitoring water levels can have numerous environmental benefits and is a popular measurement for a number of different industries and organisations. Below we will discuss some of the common applications water level monitoring devices, as well as some of the valuable insights that recording this can reveal. Remote water level monitoring Whereas water level monitoring used to be done by ...
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Drought hits capital of Philippines
Manila, with a population that has doubled since 1985, has no fallback as monsoon fails to materialize On July 11, the reservoir of the hydroelectric Angat Dam, which supplies Manila and other nearby areas with water, reached the critically low level of 160 m. Its normal minimum operating level is 180 m, and its normal high water level is 210 m. In the early part of March, water taps began to ...
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Preventing Soil Erosion - Protecting Humanity
When discussing environmental concerns, soil erosion is not the first issue that comes into mind. The world’s media focuses on fossil fuel problems, climate change, biodiversity and forest fires, while soil depletion is less spectacular and is seldom mentioned. However, societies in the past have even collapsed or disappeared as a result of soil erosion. For centuries Easter Island was ...
By CoirGreen
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Chile’s Worst Drought in 60 Years Enters 10th Year
Dwindling water supplies are a particular challenge considering COVID-19 pandemic Despite receiving some rain, beginning in May, the South American nation of Chile is entering the 10th year of its worst drought in 60 years, and some Chilean farmers are now forced to survive on tanker truck water. It’s strictly for personal use — they’re prohibited from using it for irrigation ...
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3 Ways Multinational Corporations Can Help Vulnerable Communities Adapt to Climate Change
Multinational companies (MNCs) typically have operations and supply chains in many parts of the world. The way they respond to climate change, therefore, can affect many populations, including poor communities in developing countries, where many people are especially vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise, and other climate change impacts. MNCs sometimes find themselves in tension with local ...
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Can wetlands save Saint-Louis from drowning?
Tackling the biggest coastal resilience challenge in West Africa The Senegal River is the second largest river in West Africa and forms the natural border between Senegal and Mauritania for much of its course as it flows west towards the Atlantic Ocean. At the coastal delta it flows past the low river banks of the city of Saint-Louis. From there it turns south, running alongside a thin strip ...
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Geomembrane Liners for Potable Water
Population growth, increasing meat consumption, and economic activity are putting a heavy strain on the world’s water resources. According to the latest data from the World Resources Institute, a Washington-based research institute, people in 400 regions around the world are living in “extreme water scarcity”. There are fears that water scarcity could displace millions, one of ...
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Can technology assist NFM (Natural Floodplain Management) and by extension SUDs solutions?
At Aquobex and our partners Groundwater Dynamics we believe it can. In fact, we believe it will allow the ideas to be migrated and implemented in urban areas as well. Natural Floodplain Management (NFM) is an emerging solution that is gaining traction with communities and the Environment Agency for a number of reasons aside from simply Slowing the Flow of impending flood events. A natural ...
By Aquobex
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Urban sustainability issues — Resource-efficient cities: good practice
Our current pattern of resource use is leading to the depletion and, consequently, scarcity of natural resources (1), the degradation of ecosystems and volatile and increasing prices of natural resources. On a planet with finite resources, the challenge is to find a way of delivering greater value and more services with fewer inputs (EC, 2011a). Resources are defined as raw materials, such as ...
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