Context Charleston is the capital of West Virginia and the state’s most populous city. It is home to 47,000 residents and is at the core of a metropolitan area of more than 200,000 people. Like many other Rust Belt communities, Charleston’s population has been declining for several decades and is […]
Barranquilla is a city that floods on top of a river. Every wet season, runoff overwhelms streets that have no real stormwater infrastructure and the same creeks that carry that runoff are also the city’s de facto sewers, with only 17% of wastewater actually treated. This post proposes Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems along the existing creek corridors as one intervention for both.
Executive Summary Kibera faces interconnected water challenges shaped by limited infrastructure, informal settlement, and unequal service provision. Water scarcity, poor water quality, flooding and fragmented governance structure all reinforce each other, making everyday access to safe and affordable water difficult for many residents. In response, this proposal presents an integrated […]
INTRODUCTION The Navajo Nation, whose initial borders were created in 1868 by a treaty with the United States government, is home to 170,000 people—more than half of the tribe’s registered members.i There are several small cities within the reservation; however, much of the area is rural in character. Through the creation of the reservation’s […]
Saint Louis is a West African municipality that experiences water delivery and wastewater management challenges. These challenges largely stem from the national water utility’s inability to keep up with the pace of urban growth and provide adequate service for all residents. Due to its geographic location, the city also experiences […]
Background The Navajo Nation is the largest land mass held by any native tribe in the United States and spans across three states (Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah) as well as borders Colorado (Figure 1).1 The climate of the Nation is primarily arid with only about 10 inches of rainfall […]
Physical Geography Alice Springs, known as Mpartnwe to its original inhabitants, is a city of nearly 26,000 inhabitants in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the largest city in the arid desert region of Central Australia and the third largest city in the Northern Territory. It receives on average […]
Background InformationWashington, North Carolina is a small city of about 10,000 residents situated on the banks where the Tar and Pamlico Rivers meet. The city enjoys excellent access to the riverfront which has been developed into recreational open space with several docks, and is surrounded by marshland, or former marshland. […]
Background Falmouth is located in Southeastern Massachusetts on Cape Cod in Barnstable County with a year-round population estimated at 30,993 people. The seasonal population can grow to more than 105,000 people as thousands arrive to enjoy the New England summers. Water supply Falmouth has a long coastline and an abundance […]
There is a very romantic yet tragic notion associated with the fertile crescent in that the awakening of the crescent’s early civilizations indicates the beginnings of environmental mastery in the process of domestication and settlement. This can be for better or worse, but it is up to the individual to […]