Integrated Water Resources, Sustainable Water Management, Urban & Suburban

Singapore Gardens an Environmental Sustainability Showcase | Water & Wastes Digest magazine – Water and Wastewater Treatment

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Singapore Gardens an Environmental Sustainability Showcase | Water & Wastes Digest magazine – Water and Wastewater Treatment.

Opened in spring 2012, Gardens by the Bay features an aquatic ecosystem with sustainable water cycles

Singapore government officials’ vision to become a “city in a garden” came to fruition by redeveloping Marina Bay and boldly allocating prime land and a hefty budget for that purpose. Years of construction later, the Gardens by the Bay officially opened in the spring of 2012, incorporating an environmentally sustainable system that encompasses a lake system in which aeration assists in the ecological process.

Sustainable Water Management, Water~Energy Nexus

Summary of Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Resources: Separating the Frack from the Fiction; A Report by the Pacific Institute | HydrateLife

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Summary of Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Resources: Separating the Frack from the Fiction; A Report by the Pacific Institute | HydrateLife.

Today I wanted to give a summary of a report put out by the Pacific Institute titled Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Resources: Separating the Frack from the Fiction. The Pacific Institute, which has been around for 25 years, released the paper which was written by Heather Cooley and Kristina Donnely in June of this year. For this report they conducted extensive interviews with experts from state and federal agencies, academia, industry, environmental groups, and community based organizations from throughout the U.S. If you are not familiar with what fracking is you can read an earlier article I wrote on fracking here: What the Frack?

Integrated Water Resources, Sustainable Water Management, Water~Energy Nexus

3 Great Low Cost (self-funded) Water Conservation Campaigns that your Utility can run with today | LinkedIn

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3 Great Low Cost (self-funded) Water Conservation Campaigns that your Utility can run with today | LinkedIn.

3 Great Low Cost (self-funded) Water Conservation Campaigns that your Utility can run with today

If your water utility needs to conserve water then you are probably considering your options.
In Urban Australia the three most effective ways to create quick wins for utility companies who faced 7 consecutive years of severe drought and plunging water storages are loosely described below

Decentralized Systems, Package systems

Intro to Decentralized Packaged Wastwater Treatment

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Intro to Decentralized Packaged Wastwater Treatment.

Overview

“Clean water will be the oil of the 21st Century.” The accuracy and magnitude of this statement is resonating worldwide. There is no more important endeavor by governments and citizens than the protection and conservation of all water resources.