Greenprint Resource Hub
Greenprint Resource Hub, developed by the Nature Conservancy, is a resource designed to assist managers, policy-makers, and communities on utilizing …
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Green Infrastructure in Parks: A Guide to Collaboration, Funding, and Community Engagement
Green Infrastructure in Parks: A Guide to Collaboration, Funding, and Community Engagement analyzes green infrastructure projects in parks and the …
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Energy Down the Drain: The Hidden Costs of California’s Water Supply
Energy Down the Drain: The Hidden Costs of California’s Water Supply analyzes the connections between power and water resources in …
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Reducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies and Practices
Reducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies and Practices analyzes 17 case studies of low impact development (LID) …
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Integrated Urban Water Model (IUWM)
Integrated Urban Water Model (IUWM) is a planning tool for urban planners and water managers considering water savings from indoor …
Agricultural Water Conservation and Efficiency Potential in California
Agricultural Water Conservation and Efficiency Potential in California outlines the benefits of improving agricultural efficiency in California. The benefits cited …
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Just the FACTS: Floods in California
Just the FACTS: Floods in California highlights key state-wide flooding concerns and solutions for California. The solutions presented include taking …
Just the FACTS: Dams in California
Just the FACTS: Dams in California highlights several key considerations of dams in California. The considerations include the crucial role …
The Value of Water Supply Reliability in the Residential Sector
The Value of Water Supply Reliability in the Residential Sector describes residential customer’s willingness to pay for improving water reliability. …
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Recognizing the Value of Energy Efficiency’s Multiple Benefits
Recognizing the Value of Energy Efficiency’s Multiple Benefits emphasizes the multiple benefits of improved energy efficiency for the residential, business, …
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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, …
Greenhouse Gas and Energy Co-Benefits of Water Conservation
Greenhouse Gas and Energy Co-Benefits of Water Conservation examines the multiple benefits that are produced from the “water-energy nexus”. The …
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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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Oro Loma Horizontal Levee Vegetation Report
The Oro Loma Horizontal Levee Project is a multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional project combining the expertise of numerous project partners to …
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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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 …
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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Making better recycled water investment decisions: Shifts happen
Making better recycled water investment decisions: Shifts happen compiles the lessons learned from eight water recycling project case studies conducted …
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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 …
The Hidden Value of Landscapes: Implications for Drought Planning
The Hidden Value of Landscapes: Implications for Drought Planning analyzes the impacts of landscaping on quality of life, environment, and …
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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 …
Drivers for and against municipal wastewater recycling: A review
Drivers for and against municipal wastewater recycling: A review provides a comprehensive review of drivers for and against wastewater recycling …
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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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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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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 …
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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Barriers and Gateways to Green Infrastructure
Barriers and Gateways to Green Infrastructure identifies and explores the major barriers to implementation of green infrastructure for stormwater management. …
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 …
Implications of Future Water Supply Sources for Energy Demands
Implications of Future Water Supply Sources for Energy Demands describes the Water-Energy Simulator (WESim), an easy-to-use analytical tool for evaluating …
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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
Berkeley Resilience Strategy
100 Resilient Cities is an organization working across the globe to help plan for more resilient and successful cities. The …