Envision V3 User Manual
The Envision V3 (Draft Credits for Public Review and Comment) user manual outlines additions to the Envision framework, a sustainability …
Water Supply
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 …
Assessing Location and Scale of Urban Nonpotable Water Reuse Systems for Life-Cycle Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Assessing Location and Scale of Urban Nonpotable Water Reuse Systems for Life-Cycle Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions examines nonpotable …
Techno-economic assessment and environmental impacts of desalination technologies
Techno-economic assessment and environmental impacts of desalination technologies provides a review of desalination technologies, including energy requirements, water production costs, …
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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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LA Sustainable Water Project: Los Angeles River Watershed
LA Sustainable Water Project: Los Angeles River Watershed provides an in-depth analysis of the potential future opportunities for water recycling, …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Freshwater Health Index
The Freshwater Health Index provides policy-makers and resource managers with a tool to evaluate policies, management options, and tradeoffs, as …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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Water Efficiency for Instream Flow: Making the Link in Practice
Water Efficiency for Instream Flow: Making the Link in Practice examines the potential for linking water efficiency efforts to improving …
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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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A framework for assessing urban greenery’s effects and valuing its ecosystem services
A framework for assessing urban greenery’s effects and valuing its ecosystem services identifies biophysical structure components of urban green space, …
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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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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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Berkeley Resilience Strategy
100 Resilient Cities is an organization working across the globe to help plan for more resilient and successful cities. The …
Adapting to Change: Utility Systems and Declining Flows
Adapting to Change: Utility Systems and Declining Flows explores the consequences of reduced indoor flows related to conservation on urban …
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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 …
The Economic Benefits of Multipurpose Reservoirs in the United States-Federal Hydropower Fleet
The Economic Benefits of Multipurpose Reservoirs in the United States-Federal Hydropower Fleet estimates the economic benefits of multipurpose hydropower reservoirs …
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