Co-benefits for Water and Biodiversity from the Sustainable Management of High Nature Value Farmland
Co-benefits for Water and Biodiversity from the Sustainable Management of High Nature Value Farmland examines the potential for high nature …
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Making the Utility Case for Onsite Non-potable Water Systems
Making the Utility Case for Onsite Non-potable Water Systems is a report that 1) defines the scope of onsite non-potable …
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Policy settings, regulatory frameworks and recycled water schemes
Policy settings, regulatory frameworks and recycled water schemes analyzes eight water recycling case studies conducted internationally to illustrate how the …
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Envision V3 User Manual
The Envision V3 (Draft Credits for Public Review and Comment) user manual outlines additions to the Envision framework, a sustainability …
Envision Framework
Envision is a framework that provides the guidance needed to initiate this systemic change in the planning, design and delivery …
Water Reuse: An International Survey of Current Practice, Issues and Needs
Water Reuse: An International Survey of Current Practice, Issues and Needs presents an in-depth review of water reuse practices from …
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Assessing the Return on Investment in Watershed Conservation: Best Practices Approach and Case Study for the Rio Camboriú PWS Program, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Assessing the Return on Investment in Watershed Conservation applies a return on investment (ROI) framework to a watershed conservation project …
Waste Less, Pollute Less: Using Urban Water Conservation to Advance Clean Water Act Compliance
Waste Less, Pollute Less: Using Urban Water Conservation to Advance Clean Water Act Compliance (blog and issue brief) presents the …
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Stormwater Capture Master Plan
Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Stormwater Capture Master Plan develops a strategy for long-term stormwater capture potential, …
Bay Area Project Tackles Sea-Level Rise and Water Quality
Bay Area Project Tackles Sea-Level Rise and Water Quality reports on a creative adaptive management strategy that has been applied …
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Impacts of forest restoration on water yield: A systematic review
Impacts of forest restoration on water yield: A systematic review provides an academic review of 666 journals and studies conducted …
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The Value of Green Infrastructure for Urban Climate Adaptation
The Value of Green Infrastructure for Urban Climate Adaptation provides a methodology for calculating the costs and benefits of green …
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Freshwater Health Index Dongjiang Basin, China: An assessment of freshwater ecosystem health
The Freshwater Health Index is a tool that examines three components of ecosystem health: ecosystem vitality (i.e., water quantity, water …
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Freshwater Health Index
The Freshwater Health Index provides policy-makers and resource managers with a tool to evaluate policies, management options, and tradeoffs, as …
Water-use efficiency and productivity: rethinking the basin approach
Water-use efficiency and productivity: rethinking the basin approach is a response to a paper in Water International. The paper highlights …
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Green infrastructure and its catchment-scale effects: An emerging science
Green infrastructure and its catchment-scale effects: An emerging science provides an overview of past research conducted on the impacts of …
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Environmental Farming Act Science Advisory Panel Bi-Annual Report (2011-2013)
Environmental Farming Act Science Advisory Panel – Bi-Annual Report (2011-2013) is a resource developed by the Environmental Farming Act Science …
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Green Infrastructure: Lessons from Science and Practice
Green Infrastructure: Lessons from Science and Practice provides a literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles that measure and analyze flood …
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Green Stormwater Infrastructure Economics in the Boise Urban Area
Green Stormwater Infrastructure Economics in the Boise Urban Area (2015) examines the economics of green versus grey infrastructure in Boise, …
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The Value of Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits
The Value of Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits is an in-depth framework for …
Quantifying Watershed Restoration Benefits in Community Water Partnership Projects
Quantifying Watershed Restoration Benefits in Community Water Partnership Projects is a report that aims to quantify water-related benefits of Coca-Cola …
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Integrated Decision Support Tool (I-DST)
The Integrated Decision Support Tool (I-DST) aims to help water managers in the quantitative assessment of grey, green, or hybrid …
Desalination, with a Grain of Salt: A California Perspective
Desalination, with a Grain of Salt: A California Perspective presents an overview of the benefits and risks of ocean desalination, …
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Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analysis for Water Recycling Projects
Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analysis for Water Recycling Projects provides an in-depth methodology for economic analysis of water recycling projects, …
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Characterization of unplanned water reuse in the EU
Characterization of unplanned water reuse in the EU presents findings from research conducted to quantify the impacts of unintentional or …
The Economics of Low-Impact Development: A Literature Review
The Economics of Low-Impact Development: A Literature Review provides a review of economic valuations of low-impact development projects. The multiple …
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Systemic solutions for multi-benefit water and environmental management
Systemic solutions for multi-benefit water and environmental management provides an academic, theoretical critique on the evaluation of multi-benefit systems. The …
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California Water Plan, Update 2009, Volume 2: Resource Management Strategies
The California Water Plan presents a guide on water management strategies that can provide multiple benefits both regionally and statewide …
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Central Valley Flood Protection Plan 2017 Update
The Central Valley Flood Protection Plan asserts that institutional frameworks hinder implementation of multi-benefit actions and outlines a framework to …
Description and Screening of Potential Tools and Methods to Quantify Public Benefits of Water Storage Projects (Draft Report)
Description and Screening of Potential Tools and Methods to Quantify Public Benefits of Water Storage Projects provides guidance on economic …
Review of IRWM Planning and Implementation in California
Review of IRWM Planning and Implementation in California presents an assessment of Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) planning and implementation …
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Proposition 1 Stormwater Grant Program Guidelines
Proposition 1 Stormwater Grant Program Guidelines, related to the Stormwater Grant Program (SWGP), establishes the process and criteria by which …
Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference
Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference details the methodology for quantifying the co-benefits or adverse impacts of water storage projects …
Strategy to Optimize Resource Management of Storm Water (Storm Water Strategy, STORMS)
Strategy to Optimize Resource Management of Storm Water is a California State Water Board statewide strategy for stormwater management. The …
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Living Streets Economic Feasibility Project: Final Report
Living Streets Economic Feasibility Report presents an alternate, new paradigm to guide the future of street and sidewalk infrastructure design …
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Beyond the Source: The environmental, economic and community benefits of source water protection
Beyond the Source is an in-depth, global study conducted by the Nature Conservancy on source water protection projects. In the …
Putting Green to Work: Economic Recovery Investments for Clean and Reliable Water
Putting Green to Work: Economic Recovery Investments for Clean and Reliable Water categorizes “green” and “bright green” projects that provide …
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Banking on Green: A Look at How Green Infrastructure Can Save Municipalities Money and Provide Economic Benefits Community-wide
Banking on Green provides a business case for green infrastructure practices in the United States. Benefits cited within the report …
Using economic valuation techniques to inform water resources management: A survey and critical appraisal of available techniques and an application
Using economic valuation techniques to inform water resources management presents a non-technical introduction to the economic valuation techniques of changes …
Management Experiences and Trends for Water Reuse Implementation in Northern California
Management Experiences and Trends for Water Reuse Implementation in Northern California examines a survey conducted in northern California on the …
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Hydrologic Shortcomings of Conventional Urban Stormwater Management and Opportunities for Reform
Hydrologic shortcomings of conventional urban stormwater management and opportunities for reform contrasts two conventional approaches to stormwater, one of which …