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Cool Roofs Have Water Saving Benefits Too

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Cool Roofs Have Water Saving Benefits Too

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New Berkeley Lab study finds that in reducing air temperatures, cool roofs can also reduce outdoor water use. Urban irrigation, Source: Pixabay The energy ...

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Can 10 Entrepreneurs Solve Urban Water Issues?

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Can 10 Entrepreneurs Solve Urban Water Issues?

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10.10.10 has produced inventive solutions in the health care space. Now, the idea generator is taking on water and infrastructure. Tom Higley, founder of ...

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San Diego Borrowing $1.7B for Ambitious Water Recycling Plan

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San Diego Borrowing $1.7B for Ambitious Water Recycling Plan

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San Diego launched its application for $1.7 billion in low-interest state loans to pay for an ambitious plan to boost the city’s water independence by ...

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U of M Secures Grant to Study Smart Infrastructure in Cities

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U of M Secures Grant to Study Smart Infrastructure in Cities

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The project will focus on multiple “smart” infrastructure sectors—water, energy, food, shelter, transportation, waste management—that converge in cities. The ...

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NYC’s water-energy-carbon nexus

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NYC’s water-energy-carbon nexus

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The Paris Climate Agreement commits nations to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius and to aspire to limit global temperature rise to ...

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Singapore to Install 10,000 Smart Showers to Boost Water Conservation

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Singapore to Install 10,000 Smart Showers to Boost Water Conservation

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Singapore’s National Water Agency to install smart shower devices for 10,000 new homes to boost water conservation. The smart devices will provide households ...

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Opti's ​Anti Flooding ​System for Protection of Cities

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Opti's ​Anti Flooding ​System for Protection of Cities

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U.S.-based Opti has developed technology that helps cities predict flooding, and better control where rain water is diverted and stored. Opti has already ...

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NZ's Sinking City: Floods the New Reality of Life by the River

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NZ's Sinking City: Floods the New Reality of Life by the River

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Is the Christchurch luxury of life by a river a relic of the past? CHARLIE MITCHELL investigates. On a dry, spring afternoon, it's hard to picture the cars ...

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Here are the U.S. Cities Least Affected by Climate Change

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Here are the U.S. Cities Least Affected by Climate Change

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A safe haven sounds like a good idea right about now. by Business Insider Somewhere that’s warm but not too warm, free from roof-toppling hurricanes and ...

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50C Temperatures are Coming to Sydney and Melbourne

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50C Temperatures are Coming to Sydney and Melbourne

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Sydney and Melbourne can expect summer days when the mercury climbs to 50 degrees Celsius within a couple of decades if greenhouse gas emissions continue to ...

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Cape Town Addresses Drought, Climate Change with SA’s First True Green Bond

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Cape Town Addresses Drought, Climate Change with SA’s First True Green Bond

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City now has only green bond in SA to be accredited by the Climate Bonds Initiative By ANGELA MOKONE In the face of global climate change and the worst ...

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Smart Water Innovation Network in the City of Burgos

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Smart Water Innovation Network in the City of Burgos

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ACCIONA Agua has signed a contract with Aguas de Burgos, the company that runs the city’s drinking water service, to set up a management system for water ...

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Future water utility: Wastewater is not waste

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Future water utility: Wastewater is not waste

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DC Water has created Blue Drop, a nonprofit organization, to market products and services as well as provide ratepayer relief from tariff increases due to ...

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The Billion Dollar Pipe Future-proofing Auckland

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The Billion Dollar Pipe Future-proofing Auckland

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Design work is nearly complete on one of the biggest infrastructure projects New Zealand has ever seen.  By Alexia Russell Auckland’s $1 billion central ...

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A National Review of Innovative and Integrated Stormwater Management Initiatives

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A National Review of Innovative and Integrated Stormwater Management Initiatives

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The Innovative and Integrated Stormwater Management report is an examination by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) into national ...

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