WiserEarth Governance
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Created: Dec 17, 2007
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Sustainable Urban Environmental Services
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Cities must provide certain services in order to sustain citizen well being and especially health. These include the provision of clean drinking water, removal and treatment of wastewater and solid wastes, and protection of lives and property from flood damage. Sustainable environmental services consider the natural environment that helps provide urbanites with these benefits-the watershed of the water source which may be hundreds of miles from the city, the rivers and oceans where wastewater is released, the preservation of floodplains to manage hundred-year floods. During the design process, planners integrate ecosystem services with human infrastructures so as not to significantly harm the environment and to balance the multiple benefits of the environment (flood management, biodiversity, modifying the heat island effect, a sink for greenhouse gases produced in the city, water purification by soils and streams, etc.).
Keywords environmental infrastructure, reservoirs, aqueducts, water delivery system, clean water, water treatment plant, fire protection, water storage, water leaks, water conservation, water borne disease, wastewater treatment, sewerage, sludge, cogeneration, heavy metals, water pollution, ocean dumping, effluent discharge, combined sewers, flood waters, storm drains, on-site stormwater management, garbage, solid waste, recyclables, sanitation equipment, garbage export, landfills, incineration, street cleaning, snow removal, salt pollution, heat island, urban landscaping, stormwater, wastewater recycling |
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BBC World News is repeating the Zer0-M video by Joshka Wessels and TVE, Waste not Waste.
While I write this TVE is still working at getting the dates of the broadcastin right on their homepage. But below are the correct broadcasting times.
You find the complete treatment of the film on the webpage of TVE. Appreciate also the research about interesting links TVE has done, a who is who of ecosanitation.
'Waste not Waste' is broadcast on BBC World News at the following times (all times quoted as UK time zone currently GMT):
Friday 16 January at 20:30, with repeats on
Tuesday 20 January at 15:30 and
Wednesday 21 January at 02:30.
I wish you good fun.
Best regards,
Martin