Managing water efficiently in cycles within an urban area will insulate a city from climate change, decoupling a city’s economic growth from water use, allowing cities to grow significantly without consuming more water. By the middle of this century, the circular economy has the potential to red...
Paragraph 1:The city of Venice, built on saltwater marshes and crisscrossed by canals, experienced problems with its water supply for most of its history. One fifteenth-century French traveler noted that “in a city in which the inhabitants are in water up to their mouths, they often go th...
As explored in Chapter 1, urban water circulation and the urban hydrosocial cycle are the vantage points from which the urbanization process will be analysed in this book. In this Chapter, a glass of water will be my symbolic and material entry point into an—admittedly somewhat sketchy—...
Luis Barragan was a noted proponent of such features, famously stating that “In fountains, silence sings.” His Lover’s Fountain in Mexico City embraces this mantra, combining the serenity of water with his characteristic colored walls and clean lines. A more contemporary example of serene ...
In this case, the development of private boreholes by the most privileged groups could produce a supply–demand cycle, which, in the longer term, might deplete the local aquifers and thus limit the future availability of water for basic needs. These results are relevant for any city that ...
A selected person pourswateror juice from the unity cup into a bowl. 2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C Although the planned operation will be located more than miles away, drawing the soda ash in through pipelines, conservationists worry it could still upset the naturalwatercycle and ...
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water is found atmosteverywhere. even in the driest part of the world there is some water in the air. as we all have found out, water may be a solid, or a liquid or a gas.when it isa solid, it may be as hard as brick, when itis a liquid, you can pour it out of a contain...
4.3Public health regulation for water is performed independently and effectively, resulting in water that is safe to consume and wastewater that can be returned to the water cycle with minimal environmental impact23 4.4A sound regulatory framework controls land use and urban expansion and reduces growt...
Tundra landscapes show naturally “patterned” ground formed by the wedging effect of ice alternately freezing and thawing at the margins of soil “polygons” 5–10 m or more in diameter (Walker, 1985). Surface disturbances caused by the freeze-thaw cycle and other forces often reduce locally ...