Building a Water Resilient City
| When: | Back to Calendar March 14, 2012 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Where: | UC Berkeley, Wurster Hall, Room 315A, Berkeley, CA |
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| Contact: | Allison Lassiter abl@berkeley.edu |
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| Categories: | General Interest | |
| Tags: | Region 2 Resource Management Water | |
Throughout the world, wastewater treatment and storm water management systems are being re-thought. No longer considered a waste product, storm water and other “waste” waters are now being managed, and sometimes reclaimed, in innovative ways that increases their resource value. There are clear connections between sewer system protection, storm water management, and potable water offsets. Onsite wastewater treatment reduces demand on San Francisco’s water and wastewater systems through non-potable reuse and discharge avoidance, mitigates peak wastewater conditions through dispersed storage capacity, and defers costs and expenses of expanding infra-structure to meet growing demand. Due to increasing populations, potential precipitation changes because of climate change, more stringent environmental regulations, and the high cost of updating infrastructure, there is consensus among water professionals that municipal agencies can no longer afford to consider wastewater simply as a public health hazard that must be disposed of safely and quickly. Rather, wastewater and storm water should be viewed as valuable resources that can be effectively used to reduce the environmental impacts and costs associated with a region’s water and wastewater system. This presentation examines the work of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Urban Watershed Management Program (UWMP). The UWMP aims to encourage and require projects to incorporate onsite storm water and wastewater management and other water sensitive strategies to adapt San Francisco to climate change and a growing population.
Speaker: John Scarpulla, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
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