Too much, or too little? Water is a critical part of the climate conversation. Cities battle flooding, drought, and sometimes both over different periods of time, making building and infrastructure planning difficult. Nature-based solutions can help communities become more resilient while amplifying the built environment’s role in providing ecosystem solutions.
This session will focus on circular water design in buildings and inclusive neighborhood developments in pursuit of achieving net-zero water. Four nature-based solutions will be shared and attendees will learn how these solutions can be used and combined in projects of varying scales. Case studies using these nature-based solutions around the world will be reviewed to demonstrate how they address urban climate challenges including flood prevention, reducing heat stress, reducing dehydration, reusing water, and increasing biodiversity. Throughout we’ll address the importance of inclusivity for all socio-economic groups to benefit from a more biophilia design ethos.
Learning Outcomes:
List five urban climate challenges that can be addressed with a circular approach to capture-store-reuse water.
List four types of nature-based solutions that can be used in circular water design and how they can contribute to more just communities and net-zero water in buildings and neighborhood scale developments.
Understand how to use a water balance analysis to design and achieve net-zero water in a project.
Gain insight into three real world projects that have successfully implemented circular water design using nature-based solutions in a variety of socio-economic projects.
• Gain insight into three real world projects that have successfully implemented circular water design using nature-based solutions in a variety of socio-economic projects.
• Gain insight into three real world projects that have successfully implemented circular water design using nature-based solutions in a variety of socio-economic projects.
