The Last Drops of Mexico City
https://mexicocitywater.longlead.com
#HackerNews #MexicoCity #WaterCrisis #UrbanWater #Sustainability #WaterShortage #EnvironmentalIssues
One of the worldโs largest and most populated cities may run out of drinking water in the near future. As Mexicoโs capital struggles to quench its thirst, scenes from the parched megalopolis show how water scarcity could one day impact cities around the globe.
On Tuesday, the 28th, the Co-UDLabs project is running a ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐จ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ. Register now.
We invite you to collaborate in a focused workshop on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data practices in urban drainage. This workshop will explore the latest concepts, implementations, and resources aimed at harmonizing and sharing data to enhance urban drainage water management strategies.
OnlineFirst - "What standards do and whom they serve: Fixing, practising and delivering per capita water supply standards in cities in India" by Sachin Tiwale:
#UrbanWater #Standards #WaterSupply #Transparency #Accountability
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486241310074
A presentation on #UrbanWater and #MarathonSwimming that some very patient urbanists and philosophers endured on Friday, at a wonderful 10th anniversary meeting of the Philosophy of the City Research Group at Brooklyn College. This might be the weirdest take on a classic marathon swim: urban swimming as flรขneury!
#WildSwimming #UrbanSwimming #UrbanWaterFutures #SustainableUrbanFutures #WaterIsLife
If it's marketed as "flushable" safe bet is it's really not, at all ... ๐ #UrbanWater ##SwimDrinkFish #OurGreatLakes #WaterIsLife
https://www.swimdrinkfish.ca/blog/greenwashing-is-clogging-our-drains-and-polluting-our-waterways
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word โflushableโ as โsuitable for disposal by flushing down a toilet.โ Itโs no surprise that when consumers see products advertised as flushable on the shelf, they make the assumption that they are safe to flush; why wouldnโt they be?
I am thrilled and honoured to announce that I have been appointed as the next Director of the Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre at #RMITUniversity (starting from the end of January, 2023).
I look forward to building on the excellent prior leadership of Prof. Jega Jegatheesan and previously, Prof. Felicity Roddick and to working with current and future members of the #WETTResearchCentre to expand and further strengthen our research, innovation and translation in water science, engineering and technologies at #RMIT.
I look forward also to working collaboratively with water industry partners and stakeholders (including Aboriginal Traditional Owners) to provide sustainable solutions for water management and usage and to protect our natural waterways, bays and seas.
You can find out more about the WETT Research Centre on:
https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/wett-research-centre
#water #WaterResearch #WaterTechnologies #WaterTreatment #DrinkingWater #wastewater #stormwater #UrbanWater #biosolids #WaterSustainability
By 2050 projections have 80% of the roughly 10 billion people on earth living in urban regions. Global average temperatures are likely to be 2-3 degrees C above pre-industrial levels and extreme conditions may render swathes of the planet effectively uninhabitable. #UrbanWater scarcity will be rampant. Read Jay Famiglietti from 2019 on the troubling geography of global water scarcity:
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archive/spring-2019/a-map-of-the-future-of-water
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