Monterey is located on the Central Coast of California, a few hours south of San Francisco. It is generally a semi-arid area, with rainfall mostly in the winter months, though recent years have exposed the area to greater extremes of both longer droughts (such as the state-wide drought of 2011-2017) […]
INTRODUCTION The focus city of this report is Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland State in north-east Australia, and the third most populous city in Australia with over 1 million residents. Brisbane is a water-smart and water-wise city that “manages water at all stages of the water cycle and is […]
Located in Southern India, Bangalore is the capital city of the state of Karnataka. The city’s population has seen rapid growth in the recent decades. India’s 2011 Census registered 8.5 million people, which at the time was a million more residents than the local water authority was planning for. A […]
By Justin Ritchey A Vulnerable Community Burlington New Jersey is a small and vulnerable coastal community. With the threat of rising sea level and increased flooding events, Burlington will have to seek for innovated solutions to protect its future and current residents. The city’s small tax base, lack of resources, […]
Home to a population of 7.49 million residents, Hong Kong is faced with the pressure to accommodate for increasing water demands amidst problems of freshwater scarcity. The interesting thing is, Hong Kong is not landlocked; it is located next to the China Sea, and has the proximity and access to […]
The City of Sacramento is the state capital of California in the United States of America. Situated in the Central Valley in Northern California, Sacramento is blessed with direct access to surface water from the Sacramento River that flows south from Lake Shasta and the American River that flows west […]
Background | Bogotá River, Colombia Bogotá is the capital of Colombia. The city is located on la Sabana de Bogotá, a highland plateau at an average of 2,550m above sea level (see Fig. 1). The Sabana is an important agricultural region, owing its productivity to fertile soils and the system […]