Water and waste management in the 21 century.

Water and waste management are going to be incredibly important in the 21 century.

Stop fracking the water away, stop nestle siphoning off millions of gallons for bottled water. Start real future city design on intelligent use of water. Dams = evaporation risk. Solar floats to stop the evaporation. Maybe a desalination plant. A purple pipe for washing clothes,cars and lawns, A reuse system that reuses bath water for the toilet. Theres a really challenging free course in doing atm that deals to with this.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities

Related coursera courses

https://www.coursera.org/course/water

https://www.coursera.org/course/hwts

https://www.coursera.org/course/waterwestus

Water in the Western United States

This course combines an overview of the science behind water and climate in the Western United States with a survey of the major legal, political, and cultural issues focused on this precious resource.

Starts April first.

https://www.coursera.org/course/waterandenvironment

Qanats water system

http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/qanats/

There was also Roman concrete...

I have found this free course to be incredibly illuminating, informative and challenging.    It offers some real practical solutions to making water resilient, liveable and sustainable water based  cities.

It is based on the solutions found by Australia during the millennial drought/ floods.   It is run by monash uni.    

Water cities of the future

Day 1

http://youtu.be/KlHtUY5OFE4

Day 1 pt 2

http://youtu.be/WYoIDN5UQfk

Day 2 pt 1

http://youtu.be/YX-ZfBRLy4A

Day 2 pt 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8miyud3rd7I

Day 3 pt 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8QBjwDNqw

Day 4 pt1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p4NqMWblQM

Day 4 pt 2

http://youtu.be/BbcDGofy3jg

Day 5 pt 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJou5XkpOGo

Day 5 pt 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9GBS1CjQQM

Day 6 pt 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDnJIEuRQU0

Day 6 pt 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNfkrOwipk

Day 7 pt 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur0ukibTjoQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1TNNpUoP-E

Arabian city of e future

http://youtu.be/NIaz61zpLfs

Film to prevent flooding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1_yVjtKH5o&feature=youtu.be

Queen Elizabeth park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT8MZIjeEwc

Bbc what Britain wants somewhere to live

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055qs5z

Property crisis

Us drought monitor

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu

Water cities of the future

Day 1

http://youtu.be/KlHtUY5OFE4

London sewage upgrade

http://youtu.be/WfT1TSycNu4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalundborg_Eco-industrial_Park

http://water.nature.org/waterblueprint/?utm_campaign=social.nature&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1424895494#/intro=true

https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDkQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.platform31.nl%2Fuploads%2Fmedia_item%2Fmedia_item%2F21%2F90%2Foecd-studies-on-water-water-governance-in-the-netherlands-fit-for-the-future-1396295499.pdf&ei=X475VKrSOcjJPJ3MgNAM&usg=AFQjCNEAsVBMuhCm-NW_TFovydW1zdrWbA&bvm=bv.87611401,d.ZWU

Ok I did a mark one standard vision of the future.   Slightly utopian.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUQQGJe4M-o&feature=youtu.be

I am working on a dystopian mistake city.

As I learn more on the course I will try to apply what I've learned to sim city examples.    Iam already thinking about a canal based city.

Climate change

http://youtu.be/SBjtO-0tbKU

Cost effective upstream Flood prevention 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25752320

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32002306

See also

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Watermanagementbluegold/

http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Frackingno/?ref=bookmarks

https://www.rebelmouse.com/Frackingno/Fun/

Water and Mexico

http://youtu.be/PrA2i5CTI0A

Good read?

https://ugc.futurelearn.com/uploads/files/3f/05/3f053a8b-bedc-42d0-b332-281268b22039/LiveabilityandtheWaterSensitiveCity__1_.pdf

Save our concrete

https://www.treepeople.org

Greener roads

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/planning/heritage-and-design/Documents/open-spaces-strategy.pdf

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/environment-and-planning/planning/heritage-and-design/Documents/open-spaces-strategy.pdf

Water sensitive urban design

http://youtu.be/b_DTnOzYTR4

My animation

http://youtu.be/fAvz9HCsioc