Water Online Highlights
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The City Of Fayetteville's Flood Resiliency In The Face Of Climate Change: Mapping 15 Watersheds
4/9/2024
The city of Fayetteville, North Carolina has always had flooding issues, but it’s been getting worse as weather patterns have been changing. They were hit four years in a row by storms Matthew (2016), Irma (2017), Florence (2018), and Dorian (2019).
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Coastal Wetlands Can't Keep Pace With Sea-Level Rise, And Infrastructure Is Leaving Them Nowhere To Go
4/9/2024
Wetlands have flourished along the world's coastlines for thousands of years, playing valuable roles in the lives of people and wildlife. They protect the land from storm surge, stop seawater from contaminating drinking water supplies, and create habitat for birds, fish, and threatened species. Much of that may be gone in a matter of decades.
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How Engineers Can Help Prevent Catastrophic Flooding
4/8/2024
Severe weather events are some of the largest looming threats to civilization in the next many decades. The power of water is humbling, something that anyone who has ever been through a flood knows well. Floods can wreak havoc on urban communities, destroying homes, but also destroy environments, damaging wetlands and natural habitats.
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10 Reasons Water Professionals Choose InfoWorks ICM
4/8/2024
A few years ago, our product manager for storm sewer and flood products Sophia presented her 10 reasons for why InfoWorks ICM is her flood modelling package of choice. A fair bit of wonderful development has happened since then, so I would like to present the Top 10 in InfoWorks ICM – part 2.
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Gross Dam Ready To Go Up
4/8/2024
The top of Gross Dam in Boulder County is bustling this spring as workers build the specialized structures needed to raise the dam. The project will nearly triple the storage capacity of the Gross Reservoir and add balance and resiliency to Denver Water’s collection system.
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Putting The Squeeze In Sponge Cities: Amsterdam's Waternet And The Innovative RESILIO Blue-Green Roof Project
4/8/2024
The RESILIO project has helped Amsterdam repurpose rooftops as smart blue-green roofs to reuse rainwater and prevent localized flooding. This project, along with other sustainable water initiatives like the Amsterdam Rainproof program, continues to position the Netherlands at the forefront of water management.
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Consor Engineers: Simulating Sophisticated Pump Flows In A Closed System
4/8/2024
To provide reliable water delivery for the industrial and irrigation customers in Ferndale, WA, 100 miles north of Seattle, the Public Utility District No. 1 of Whatcom County (PUD) tasked Consor Engineers, a water and transportation infrastructure consulting firm, with conducting hydraulic modeling simulations to assess its current industrial water system and select new high head service pumps for a proposed new water treatment plant.
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What Is The Impact Of Climate Change On Stormwater Modeling, And How Can Water Professionals Prepare?
4/8/2024
As the world’s climate continues to shift, the effects of extreme weather events are beginning to cascade through the modern civilized world. While topical discussions of the impacts of climate change often focus on significant natural disasters, there are other more gradual impacts to the way the world works that this shifting climate brings.
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Continuous Emission Monitoring In Practice
4/8/2024
Each country has laws and regulations for emission monitoring and control. On one hand, the demand is driven by increasing regulation and stricter enforcement, on the other - by public pressure on industries to operate sustainably.
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Turning Your Data Into Decisions By Creating A Data Culture Inside Your Water Utility
4/7/2024
Aging infrastructure, climate change, and the need to balance growth and conservation present challenges for water utilities. Technology promises to remake operations and deliver industry-changing improvements, and indeed many utilities already use updated remote sensing and monitoring tools to measure consumption, flow, and pressure.