Green roofs helping cities manage floods
Recent research into green roof technology has produced promising results for optimising flood management techniques in high-risk urban areas. Through ...
Tag: Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)
Building a water resilient town
In the 2000s, Australia experienced the Millennium Drought, which affected water supply for most of the major cities. In the ...
What can we learn from Rotterdam’s approach to urban water management?
The ability of countries to address future urban water management challenges – particularly from climate change and population growth – ...
Irrigated public open spaces
Lawn irrigation trials were used to examine the effects of frequency and duration of watering, and fertiliser application, on local ...
Chinese and Australian partnership capitalises on shared WSUD expertise
Australian research and technology will be put the test in a 10-hectare innovation park in China aimed at testing new ...
Water sensitive urban development launched
A Melbourne housing development using the latest water-sensitive inventions to help slash drinking water use by 70% has been officially ...
Utility plans green space for stormwater basins
Water Corporation is crowd-sourcing ideas for transforming land alongside stormwater drains and drainage basins into recreational spaces. The joint project with the ...
Unclogging permeable pavements’ potential
Award-winning new research has potentially pointed the way to dramatically improving the cost-effectiveness of permeable pavements. At last month’s Australian ...
Green Square: Protecting communities and enabling urban renewal through effective flood risk management
The Green Square Stormwater Drain (GSSD) is the culmination of a strategic alignment between City of Sydney and Sydney Water ...
Better policy key to water sensitive urban design
A new study has confirmed the over-arching importance of strong planning and environmental laws in water sensitive urban design (WSUD). ...
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