Water Resources Best Management Practices

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Water and Energy Projects are catalysts in generating new employment opportunities and entrepreneurial efforts in communities that are in the forefront of managing watershed and water resources issues in urban and rural settings.

Managing Water Resources

Communities are confronting new and complex challenges to achieve safe and affordable water supplies, collect and treat waste water and storm water, flood protection, rivers and streams for fishing and swimming. There are also challenges with aging infrastructure and the impact of climate change on human health and ecosystems.

Challenges that Require New Infrastructure and Approaches to Urban Water Resources

Storm Water if rain is not properly managed and flows over impervious surfaces into the nearest storm drain, it can have a detrimental effect on rivers and streams. In an urban environment, storm water is also closely related to safety, flooding, waterway health and drinking water.

Waterways urbanization is responsible for many of the sources that contribute to waterway degradation. Increases in impervious surface area and runoff have negative effects on stream flow. Once the natural physical condition of a waterway is compromised by pollution or excessive runoff, it sets off a chain of degradation: erosion, water temperature changes and habitat loss.

Watershed groups, municipalities, agencies, and conservation groups working together to develop watershed and restoration plans, implement projects and return streams to healthy thriving systems by implementing watershed assessments and planning programs, quality control plans, floodplain protection, land use management and storm water best management practices and more.

Infrastructure Requires Continuous Inspection and Maintenance

Water Conservation the true cost of water in a property should be measured as the water rate + the sewer rate multiplied by the water consumption volume + plus fees and other associated costs. In addition, while the water usage profile varies by building type and use, mechanical systems account for 30 percent of water use in a typical building, with cooling towers nearly 50 percent and outdoor usage another 20-30 percent.

Water Heating Accounts for Eight Percent of Energy Consumption in Commercial Buildings

Sub meters help identify inefficiencies and malfunctions as leaks account for six percent of water usage and older fixtures consume up to five times more water prompting installation of leak detection systems.

Innovative Solutions to Achieve Water Quality

Community Museums Transit Stations and Libraries

New Small Business and employment begins with the training of new entrepreneurs in key skills, including: tourism operations, customer and transit services, energy savings, water resources, information and library management.

A museum, train station, bus depot, library, civic center or other similar public or private building is the point of reference to carry out the above referenced training as well as to act as info point, meeting place and event location for local residents as well as visitors from other communities acting as the point of reference in the local area for cultural and other itineraries.

Each community has Unique Capabilities and Resources

A Collaboration with your facility is open-ended, can be terminated at any time and does not impact on your current resources; where staff time is involved, it will be compensated on terms and conditions to be negotiated on a project basis.

Partial facilities use for meetings, events and the tourism info point can be paid:

o   at rates to be negotiated, or

o   in kind with equipment and services for use by the general public

The Results of this effort are: 

job creation in the community,

new revenue and tax receipts from tourism, transit and other business activities,

positioning of your structure as the community’s most important asset.

Tell Us About Your Community and Facility

Cogeneration for Your Neighborhood Small Town and Business

District Energy Networks Employment and Environmental Benefits

Cogeneration involves the recovery of otherwise-wasted thermal energy to produce useful thermal energy or electricity. Off-grid neighborhoods, small towns and businesses can harness a combination of  renewable energy, household composting, wastewater management agricultural and industrial waste-to-resource systems to generate surplus energy that enable self-reliant and resilient neighborhoods in your community.  

Your Neighborhood and Small Town benefit from new, scalable and mobile technologies that are personalized to meet the unique requirements to achieve a closed loop system utilizing available local resources. Biogas can be used in cogeneration systems for production of heat to be used on site and for many other requirements of the zoo-technical and electricity chains. This technology can treat waste from agricultural farms, livestock farms and milk factories as well as produce green energy that can be sold.

District Energy Networks utilize any combination of fossil, recuperative and renewable fuels to create energy and heat that is then distributed from a central system via a pipeline system to business, institutional and private users resulting in functional, economic and ecological advantages Video

Financing Alternatives Traditional banking and leasing options are available along with federal, state and local assistance. Also, build, operate and transfer – bot – programs that reduce upfront investment costs.

Employment Benefits are achieved with robust training programs designed to turn over management and operations of the plant to local personnel.

Environmental Benefits Cogeneration reduces emissions of GHGs and other air pollutants by as much as 40 percent or more. It consumes essentially zero water resources in generating electricity and offers a low-cost approach to adding new electricity generation capacity.  

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An Eco Museum in Your Community

A local, collective, private and public, entrepreneurial and sustainable economic development effort to create new employment and wealth opportunities:

Local a project made specifically for your community that draws on the history, traditions and talents that are unique to your town and region; shared, and paid for in part, with the participation and resources of visiting individuals, families, businesses, non profits and many others.

Collective a multidisciplinary approach that rests on the following wealth creating pillars:

o   Education and Training

o   Water Conservation and Management

o   Energy Savings and Creation Programs

o   Tourism services

o   Local typical products

The way out of a low wage, dead end job spiral: continuous acquisition of new collective knowledge

Private and Public drawing on the resources, expertise and vantage points of both in a carefully constructed partnership that is unique to the culture, values and needs of your territory

Entrepreneurial the freedom to be creative, to try something new, to fail in order to succeed!

Sustainable quality skills that empower the individual to create new wealth in the community in respect of the environment

Why  a Museum we cannot think of any other place -  anywhere - where history and culture, knowledge and learning, local citizens and visitors, the past and the future can come together and, building on past achievements, create new opportunities.

can we help make one for you

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Un Eco Museo nel Tuo Territorio

Un progetto locale, collettivo, imprenditoriale, pubblico e privato, per uno sviluppo economico sostenibile mirato a creare nuove opportunità di lavoro e di benessere sociale:

Locale un progetto realizzato appositamente per la tua comunità che attinge alla storia, le tradizioni ed i talenti unici della tua città e regione; condiviso, e pagato in parte, con la partecipazione e le risorse di persone e famiglie in visita, le imprese, i non profit e tanti altri soggetti.

Collettivo un approccio multidisciplinare allo sviluppo locale con:

o   Istruzione e formazione

o   Gestione delle risorse idriche

o   Risparmio energetico  e sviluppo di nuove risorse

o   Servizi turistici

o   Prodotti tipici locali

La via d'uscita dalla stagnazione economica: la continua acquisizione del sapere collettivo

Pubblico e Privato puntando ad un utilizzo efficace di risorse, competenze ed i vantaggi di entrambi in un partenariato costruito con la massima attenzione alla cultura, i valori e le esigenze del tuo territorio

Imprenditoriale libertà di creare e provare qualcosa di nuovo, anche fallire per poi avere successo!

Sostenibilità competenze professionali valide che consentono di creare un nuovo benessere socio-economico nel rispetto dell'ambiente

Perchè un museo c’è forse un altro luogo in cui la storia e la cultura, il sapere e l'apprendere, il cittadino ed  il visitatore, il passato e il futuro possono incontrarsi e, partendo dalle tradizioni locali, creare delle nuove opportunità.

possiamo contribuire a crearne uno anche per te

Per Saperne di Piu'
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