City of Chicago 2022 Climate Action Plan Working on Climate Action in Chicago City’s new comprehensive plan sets ambitious goals to reduce carbon emissions, advance equity and environmental justice, improve community health and resilience, and increase household savings. Project Featured in the 2022...
Chicago resident, Breanne, has built an incredible rain harvesting system consisting of seven rain barrels, daisy-chained together, and a well pump to force the water up to a rooftop vegetable garden. She explains the materials and tools used to build this system in this HOW TO article on re...
1.A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region:Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest. 2.A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity:a great cultural metropolis. 3.EcclesiasticalThe chief see of a metropolitan bishop. ...
(2015). The connotation, approach and prospect of the Sponge City (LID). Water and Wastewater Engineering, 3, 1–7. Google Scholar Tan, S.K., & Zhang, N. Evaluation on the current status of China's sponge city construction: taking China's 16 sponge cities. Urban Problems, 6, 98–...
In some parts of the world they are revered and protected; in other places they are captured and eaten for dinner. One thing is certain: They’re everywhere.
The Free City of Night City (NC)[4] is an autonomous city-state found on the shores of Del Coronado Bay, located on the border between North and South California, on the Pacific Coast of North America. Established in 1994 by Richard Night, it was originally known as Coronado City before...
The chlorine demand of the treated wastewater was found to be 3.0 mg/L. Best monochloramine formation was accomplished when a 3.5:1 chlorine-to-ammonia ratio was applied. A 4:1 chlorine-to-ammonia ratio (ammonia dosage of 1.0 mg/L) resulted in 100% removal of total coliform. A cost ...
Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba have the longest public transport networks, with an estimated 8.7 km per km² and 8.5 km, respectively, compared with the Index average of 5 km. Wastewater is often not treated adequately: 8 of 17 cities treat 50% or less of their wastewater before discharging...
In November 2021, the Canadian city of Merritt was ordered to evacuate following the flooding of a wastewater treatment plant. Cities are growing across the world, but at least a third of the global urban population lacks access to a sewer connection. Less than 20 percent of people living in...
collection (see Figure below) and using wastewater recycling and storm water harvesting techniques. Storm water and flood management concepts need to be adopted as part of the urban design, and this includes storm water run-offs and improved drainage systems and the treatment of wastewater. ...