Sentence examples for more stormwater from inspiring English sources

It called for, among other things, protecting wetlands and planting more trees, which will keep the city cooler and capture more stormwater run-off.

The increase in the amount of impervious surface in urban areas produces more stormwater runoff, that is carried to the receiving bodies of water.

Westchester's postwar development led to more stormwater runoff, which often flooded and closed the parkway.

The parks department will have to start choosing more stormwater-tolerant plants for the city's green spaces, in order to sponge up runoff and decrease flooding and pollution.

We can do even better with more recycling, stormwater harvesting and integrated water cycle management.

Future research will include systematic investigation of the processes involved in reduction of bacteria in copper-zeolite filters and optimise filter design to augment the system performance to meet more stringent stormwater reuse requirements.

The findings of this paper provide empirical evidences for policy makers to further the importance of interconnection and clusters of green infrastructure and plan strategic green hubs and corridors to more effectively manage stormwater runoff.

To learn more about rain, stormwater, and water pollution check out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Pollution Discharge Elimination System web site (http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=5).

Low impact development (LID) practices have become more important in urban stormwater management worldwide.

For all catchments, greater forest land cover and less impervious cover appeared to be more important drivers than stormwater BMP spatial pattern, and caused lower total, stormflow, and baseflow runoff volume; lower maximum discharge during typical precipitation events; and lower runoff volume during an extreme precipitation event.

In less-developed areas, controlling stormwater can mean more than just a stable water supply and a nice park.