Regulatory Pathways for Nature-Based Shoreline Resilience Webinar
The Transforming Shorelines Collaborative is pleased to invite you to a virtual webinar on August 28th from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm:Regulatory Pathways for Nature-Based Solutions for Shoreline ResilienceAre you a shoreline planner, restoration project implementer, consultant, scientist, or regulator working on climate adaptation at the Bay’s shoreline? This webinar is for you! It is free, but please register here to receive the calendar invite and Zoom information. The full webinar agenda is attached.The San Francisco Bay Area must continue to bolster coastal resilience to avoid inundation of vital habitat and prevent hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to property and infrastructure. To address this critical challenge, the pathways through regulatory permittingof nature-based climate adaptation projects must be improved through coordination, technical support, and regulatory advancement.This webinar will feature a presentation on the regulatory challenges and opportunities for implementing nature-based solutions for shoreline resilience. A panel of experts, including project implementers and regulators from the First Mile Project, the Palo Alto Horizontal Levee, Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and the San Francisco Bay Water Board, will discuss how to effectively advance regulatory pathways for nature-based solutions. Attendees will hear first-hand about the key needs, most important strategies, and next steps. There will be opportunities for attendees to ask questions of the panelists.We hope you can join us!
“We’ve always known ours was contaminated: the problem with America’s water”
Aging infrastructure, legacy pollution and emerging contaminants across the US are driving a growing urgency to do something about America’s water crisis. Read the article in the Guardian, for which Prof. David Sedlak was interviewed.
California resident Florencia Ramos has been purchasing drinking water for herself and her family for more than a decade. Photo credit: Gary Kazanjian/Ensia
Climate and Impacts Research Hub Fall 2020
Climate and Impacts Research Hub
A new student-lead collaboration, called the Climate and Impacts Research Hub will continue in Spring 2020. This semester, we heard from 9 different graduate students about their research and had a cross-disciplinary discussion and critique. This Hub is a start of campus-wide network for graduate students to collaborate on, learn about, and develop their climate-related research. See the website: to sign up for emails, see the past speakers, and contribute to the discussion now.
Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water
BWC affiliate and Wheeler Water Institute Director Michael Kiparsky talks to Wired about Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water.
How California is defying Trump’s environmental rollbacks
Berkeley Water Center affiliate Holly Doremus talks to the LA times about How California is defying Trump’s environmental rollbacks.
The sanitation and urban agriculture nexus: urine collection and application as fertilizer in São Paulo, Brazil
Separately collected urine is an attractive potential fertilizer because of its high nutrient content, low cost, and inherent linkage of urban wastewater management and peri-urban agriculture. Urine from waterless urinals was applied to corn and lettuce plants to examine the impact of urine application rates and frequency on plant growth and soil parameters. In both corn and lettuce experiments, urine application significantly (p < 0.05) increased growth and leaf production relative to control plants. More frequent applications led to lower soil cation exchange capacities for corn and higher soil nitrogen content for both crops. Based on preliminary implementation calculations, waterless urinals at the University of São Paulo (USP), School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities campus could lead to over 1,500 m3 of water saved and 360 m3 of urine produced on an annual basis. These experiments and modeling results are discussed in the context of scaling up urban urine collection, transport, and fertilization in São Paulo, Brazil.