Holistic Wet Weather Management through Adaptive Volume and Pollutant Source Control at a Community Scale: Finding the Sweet Spot

Utilities, municipalities, and counties are at a crossroads; not only must they face external stressors due to climate change (e.g. extreme events with increasing frequency and intensity), but they must also address aging infrastructure, population shifts (densification and shrinking cities), and additional pressure on networks already over-capacity. Adaptive management strategies for improving water management policies and practice based on past experiences is needed to appropriately account for such uncertainty.

Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Redevelopment in Philadelphia

This research project aims to evaluate the role that GSI has in the redevelopment approval process (and subsequently, PWD’s role), and how the approval process can be better streamlined to allow for GSI integrations in the early stages of redevelopment project planning. Our output will be a detailed and illustrative white paper that will feature an infographic detailing and explaining the process to be used for advocacy and evaluating aspects that may be convoluted or redundant, as well as what might be missing.

International Journal for Water Equity and Justice: Volume 10

The tenth volume for The International Journal for Water Equity and Justice (IJWEJ) focuses on emergent and groundbreaking work addressing water equity and justice issues globally. This special edition aims to amplify issues at the intersection of water resources and a vast range of topics, including the impediments to water justice, pathways to overcome past and current water injustice, and how water justice issues play out across differences such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.

Reflections on “The Nexus of Climate Change, Nature-based Solutions, and CSO Remediation in the Northeast MegaRegion”

Before the term nature-based solutions (NbS), defined by The International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN) as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously benefiting people and nature”, became en vogue in the last decade or so, Philadelphia pioneered what was then called Green Infrastructure (GI) in order to comply with the Clean Water Act.