In this the Sixth Seminar in our watershed management series we will take a look at ways to conserve precious water supply, cut back on your water and sewer bills, how to capture rain water to minimize outdoor water use, and how to practice painless water conservation for either your home, business, school or municipality.
As an EPA WaterSense Partner for over a decade, WasteWater Education provides public and outreach materials designed to show the link between water use and efficient wastewater treatment systems.
Featuring case studies from throughout the US and International locations demonstrating how all water and life is connected, within, on, above and surrounding where we all live …. And how anyone can take simple steps to make a difference ….
All will be free to attend live but will also be available post event on our education platform. All begin at 9 AM HST – 10 AM HST (2 PM EST) via Zoom Every Monday in October and November, December 14 and 21 Please login here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82139391920
November 2: Grey To Green: Managing Seven Hills and Five Rivers
Host Dendra Best and Jacqueline Diaz-Nieto: Natural Flood and Water Management Coordinator at Sheffield City Council When catastrophic flooding hit the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire UK in 2007, the City considered all options: sustainable systems, existing technologies and simple interventions that could have systemic benefits, rather than developing new complex solutions. The central transmission and conveyance systems were facing a massive repair bill. How could they stop this from happening again?
“There is always a place I can take someone’s curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we’re done. That’s my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
But first a tribute – “Sheffield has lost one of its most quietly remarkable figures. Nigel Dunnett, Professor of Planting Design and Urban Horticulture at the University of Sheffield, who died in April aged just 63. He leaves behind a city that looks visibly different because of his vision. The man who made Sheffield bloom: [Credit – https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/501333-nigel-dunnett-sheffields-landscape-pioneer-who-turned-grey-streets-green-has-died-aged-63/ ] Most people in Sheffield have walked past his work without knowing his name. The wildflower planting along the ring road, the colour at Park Square roundabout with Park Hill looming behind it, the naturalistic meadows at Sheffield Manor Lodge on the Manor estate — all of it bears his fingerprints.
Dunnett was the driving force behind Grey to Green, Sheffield City Council’s award-winning urban greening project that has been reshaping the city centre since 2014. Described in some quarters as Europe’s largest urban green scheme, it was built with sustainability and flood management in mind as much as beauty. Speaking to the BBC in 2021, Dunnett described its ambition plainly: “The idea was to make Sheffield different, really make it a garden city.”
Not an event to be feared but an occasion for a community meeting place, full of life, natural systems and an outstanding example of the multiple benefits of nature based systems.
Keeping Water On The Land: Seminar Three
Next Monday: October 26: Shelter From The Storm! Host KCarter Consulting LLC 9 AM HST – 10 AM HST (3 PM EST) via Zoom Please login here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82139391920
South Florida’s roadmap to stormwater resilience. Miami has worked to tackle rising flooding, tidal surges, and shifting climate conditions with a data-driven stormwater master plan to guide resilient investments.
In 2018 it was the subject of one of the PBS WNET 4 Part Series “Sinking Cities.” It was projected that by 2030 the city could experience up to 30 tidal flooding events a year- by 2050 over 150….
Next Monday: 9 AM HST – 10 AM HST (3 PM EST) via Zoom. Please login here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82139391920 October 12: Picture this!! – Host, Mehdi Khoury
In this seminar, Mehdi Khoury will build on the thoughts detailed in the opening presentation by Phillip Allsop: that the natural world is a complexity of science and inter connected networks.
All human activity impacts how earth, air and water perform and work together – or not. A basic change in practice, a simple different path taken ,will influence infrastructure resilience, and the interconnections between water, energy, land, food, health and climate. Interactive visualisation, the development of serious games, will be the topic of this presentation: Nature-based solutions for water resource management, when applied to flood mitigation and a circular economy approach to water and industrial symbiosis. This presentation invites stakeholder engagement to consider a model for understanding and anticipating cascading failures in critical infrastructure services and improving their resilience.
Featuring case studies from throughout the US and International locations demonstrating how all water and life is connected, within, on, above and surrounding where we all live …. And how anyone can take simple steps to make a difference ….
All will be free to attend live but will also be available post event on our education platform. All begin at 9 AM HST – 10 AM HST (3 PM EST) via Zoom Every Monday in October and November. Please login here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82139391920
October 5: Back to the Future – Host Phillip Allsopp , will focus on sustainable systems and historical solutions to modern problems emphasizing the importance of looking at existing technologies and simple interventions that could have systemic benefits, rather than developing new complex solutions. Philip will share his approach of emphasizing whole systems thinking and the need for fundamental changes beyond business as usual, drawing parallels to historical solutions and cultural water management knowledge.
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