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Could rooftops become part of a city’s drainage system? Amsterdam is testing a useful shift in perspective: a roof does not have to be a passive surface that sends every drop of rain toward the nearest gutter. Blue-green roofs can hold water, support vegetati...
Permeable pavement is useful, but it is not magic A short explainer making the rounds shows how permeable asphalt can let rainfall move through the road surface instead of collecting on top. That can mean less pooling, less hydroplaning risk, and less water r...
A Useful Lesson from Philadelphia’s Rainwater Streets This short video on Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters program shows stormwater infrastructure doing several jobs at once: slowing runoff, filtering pollutants, and reducing pressure on combined sewer...
Hindi sapat ang paglilinis ng ilog kung walang sasalo sa basura Magandang paalala ang before-and-after na mga larawan ng Lahug - Kamputhaw - Tejero River malapit sa Tejero Bridge. Nilinis ng Cebu City Agriculture at CENRO ang bahagi ng ilog at naglagay ng gar...
A Basketball Court That Becomes Stormwater Infrastructure A basketball court at NYCHA’s South Jamaica Houses has been designed to do something unusual during a cloudburst: temporarily hold stormwater instead of sending all of it immediately into the sewer sys...