Stream daylighting would reconnect community to Mississippi River:...
Note to Reader: There once was a creek running through the St. Paul land where Henry Ford built his Twin Cities Assembly Plant. For decades, that water has run underground through a system of storm...
View ArticleHARD WORK OF HOPE: “Our rivers are being reborn after a century of decline....
Note to Reader: The Tuscon-based Watershed Management Group (WMG) develops community-based solutions to ensure the long-term prosperity of people and health of the environment. We provide people with...
View ArticleNew York City’s $US 1.9 Billion Program to Combat Flooding includes Hundreds...
Note to Reader: New York City will double the size of its green infrastructure program by building more than 5,000 curbside rain gardens, adding to the more-than 4,000 that have already been installed...
View ArticleFLASHBACK TO 2010: Philadelphia Urban Water Leadership Conference represents...
Note to Reader: In February 2011, the Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia posted a consolidated reference for a number of articles posted on this waterbucket.ca website. Their...
View ArticleGREEN CITY, CLEAN WATERS: Commencing in 2011, Philadelphia’s 25-year program...
Note to Reader: In a major initiative, Philadelphia is building an extensive network of rain gardens, green roofs, wetlands, and other infrastructure to capture rainwater and stormwater runoff. The...
View ArticleFLASHBACK TO 2011: United States EPA and City of Philadelphia signed the...
Note to Reader: A decade ago, Philadelphia developed a plan to transform the city. The plan envisions ‘peeling back’ a lot of the city’s concrete and asphalt and replace them with plants — rain...
View ArticlePHILADELPHIA’S GREEN CITY, CLEAN WATERS PROGRAM:”Howard Neukrug fundamentally...
Note to Reader: Howard Neukrug, formerly the City of Philadelphia’s Water Commissioner, started off in drinking water treatment at the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) in 1978 and began the PWD’s...
View ArticleGREEN INFRASTRUCTURE & A TALE OF TWO CITIES: “Philadelphia has set an example...
Note to Reader: In March 2018, the Editorial Board of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper published an editorial lamenting that “Philadelphia has more to teach Chicago than the right way to make...
View ArticleTHE FIRST DECADE OF PHILADELPHIA’S GREEN CITY, CLEAN WATERS PROGRAM: “We had...
Note to Reader: Rising temperatures create more frequent intense downpours that overwhelm urban systems, sending raw sewage into waterways. Many cities, from the District to Chicago and San Francisco,...
View ArticleSEATTLE’S THORNTON CREEK, A BLUEPRINT FOR ENHANCING BIODIVERSITY THROUGH A...
Note to Reader The April 2022 issue of Scientific American magazine featured Canadian-born stream biologist Katherine Lynch and her innovation in bringing nearly dead urban streams back to productive...
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