Day: May 3, 2023

  • 🌊Flood Resilience Part 2: Sponge Cities 🧽🏙

    🌊Flood Resilience Part 2: Sponge Cities 🧽🏙

    🛣🏜 Cities, aka sealed asphalt deserts Our cities are currently build to drain rainwater FAST! With surface sealing by asphalted streets and concrete houses, rainwater is mostly directly converted to runoff. This runoff is then channeled into sewers, which (in case of a mixed sewer) should guide it to a wastewater treatment plant. With increases…