Pure Water, Pure Gold for San Diego
San Diego imports 85% of its water supply from the Colorado River and Northern California Bay Delta. Over the past 15 years, the cost of importing the water has tripled with the…
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A focused intelligence section from the Mark and Focus archive, connecting recurring analysis across policy, infrastructure, resilience, technology, and urban systems change.
A future-proof wastewater resource plant
Traditionally, wastewater is seen as a burden that needs treating and disposing of. However, as demand for water grows and the quantity of wastewater produced increases, to be exploited. In this new…
Sydney’s water blueprint
Cities across the globe face long-term challenges from the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and environmental degradation. In light of this, many cities are implementing resilience strategies to ensure that…
PPPs funding new water infrastructure
In the water supply and sanitation sector, ensuring access and service quality is often challenged by a range of factors including population growth, rapid urbanization, climate change as well as aging infrastructure.…
Wastewater becomes resourcewater
and instead see it as a resource that provides water, for both humans and nature, as well as energy and fertilizer. with the city’s utility, HAMBURG WASSER, setting the goal of closing…
Strategies for greening the skyline
On January 24th 2017, San Diego’s City Council unanimously approved its Urban Forestry Program Five Year Plan to help the city meet its commitment to climate change mitigation and resilience, carbon sequestration,…
Smart city, smarter water management
The pace of urbanization globally is unprecedented with nearly 66% of the world’s population expected to be urban by 2050. At the same time, global demand for water will increase by 55%.…
Greening Europe’s urban spaces
Europe is an urban and increasingly urban continent with the percentage of the population living in urban centers expected to increase from over 70% in 2015 to more than 80% in 2050.…
Creating a water-secure future for cities
With global demand for water projected to outstrip supply by 40% in 2030, cities around the world are facing a water-insecure future unless they balance rising demand with limited, and often variable,…
Cape Town’s quest for water security
The City of and that they need to reduce their water use to winter levels. This is in response to a drought in the Western Cape that has seen dam levels in…