People around the world rely on groundwater for irrigation and consumption, but it can be contaminated with heavy metals, fuel, sewage, fertilizers, and pesticides due to human activities, including landfills, urban stormwater, sewer leaks, fuel spills, agriculture, animal husbandry, land clearing, and resource extraction. Groundwater contamination can have negative effects on human health, the environmental, …
Biodiversity includes all living plants and animals on earth. “Biodiversity is the foundation of ecosystem services to which human well-being is intimately linked” . Ecosystem services are the functions of a healthy environment that benefit all living things, and includes water and soil production, plant growth, temperature control, and oxygen generation. Currently, there are an …
A wide range of stakeholders can participate in the planning and governance of nature-based solutions (NBS), such as large-scale restoration of forests, wetlands, and shorelines, and small-scale implementation of green roofs and walls, rain gardens, and others. When stakeholders are involved in NBS projects, they become engaged in the process and involved in planning, decision …
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Grey infrastructure projects typically include a team of a few people: an engineer, a drafts person, and possibly a project manager. Grey infrastructure for stormwater is out of sight, buried in the ground, and has one function: to remove stormwater from where it lands as quickly as possible. These projects have no need for community …
Riparian buffers are terrestrial zones of grasses, shrubs, and trees that border rivers, lakes, and wetlands. They provide stability for the riverbanks, prevent erosion, increase biodiversity and habitat, trap sediment and pollution from land runoff preventing it from reaching the water, and shade the land and water. The shoreline of oceans, lakes, and rivers where …
