Such strategy able to generate a synergy between these two mobility means, implies the development of a sustainable mobility involving both daily urban transfers and long trips to discover the territory around.
He casts it as a farm-to-urban transfer in which the farmers got fair value for the water, particularly because the Owens Valley was not an agricultural paradise but a marginal area with alkaline soil and low productivity.
Imperial's fear is that a century after Colorado River water allowed this land to be a cornucopia, unfettered urban water transfers could turn it back into a desert.
Writing from the area in the New York Times, Felicity Barringer notes that many fear that "a century after Colorado River water allowed this land to be a cornucopia, unfettered urban water transfers could turn it back into a desert".
In 2003, in the largest agricultural-to-urban water transfer in United States history, San Diego County made a deal with the Imperial Valley to buy as much as two hundred thousand acre-feet a year.
The soil in rural areas soaks up the rain and trees breathe it back into the atmosphere, whereas the concrete in urban areas transfers rainwater into drains and hence into rivers.
To achieve this objective, the following steps were implemented: measurement of wind velocity for the site characterization, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation for the calculation of the wind flow within the built area, construction of the digital elevation model (DEM) of the urban area, transferring of wind flow data into the GIS software package.
This article studies how urbanization processes and associated rural-urban water transfers in the Lima region (Peru) create water control hierarchies that align the municipal drinking water company, hydropower plants and rural communities on unequal positions.
Third, use eminent domain to seize all of the other thousands of foreclosed properties that blight the urban landscape, and transfer them to families needing homes.
However, in the process of land and urban development, land transfer fees have become an important source of revenue for local governments.
