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Goodbye to decaying deposits and blocked pumps? Ensuring the clean operation of municipal stormwater holding tanks

Envirotec Magazine

The stormwater overflow tank. In 2018, when cleaning equipment in a municipal rainwater collection facility in the German town of Nastätten was repeatedly becoming blocked and was also deemed outdated, the municipality decided to modernise. For more information visit www.homa-pumpen.de , www.vgnastaetten.de

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Water innovation recognised at Edinburgh awards ceremony

Envirotec Magazine

Technologies included water reuse, water recovery through zero liquid discharge and digital stormwater management. Projects for the oil & gas, food & beverage, pharmaceutical and water utility sectors were all successful.

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Deal renewal for modular system

Envirotec Magazine

million of them scheduled to achieve “at risk” status by 2050 – water management components firm Hydro International has renewed a stormwater management deal with Rehau , a firm active in the building services sector. A gainst a backdrop of ever increasing flood risk for many UK properties – with an extra 1.2

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Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience

GreenBiz

In 2018, Orlando became the first city in Florida to pass legislation that requires public disclosure of energy and water efficiency in buildings , and an ambitious goal of transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy city-wide by 2050.

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Biophilia and Biophilic Design: Incorporating Sustainability Into The Built Environment

Green Business Bureau

Biophilic urbanism is more capable of optimizing the health of a city in different ways such as improving the city environment, providing economic growth for the municipality through stormwater management, and nurturing the mental health of society.[6] Credit: Ginkgo Sustainability. References: [1] Fromm, E. Greenwich, CT. [2] 2] Wilson, E.

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One of the biggest climate threats is the most familiar: Rain

Grist

As NOAA stated in a 2018 report , “Annual flood records are expected to be broken again next year and for years and decades to come.”. After Hurricane Sandy, Hoboken, New Jersey, rebuilt with future storms in mind — replacing concrete with spongy surfaces and installing a 200,000-gallon stormwater tank under one of the city’s big parks.

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Striving for environmental balance: nutrient neutrality to futureproof the development pipeline

Envirotec Magazine

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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