Flooding is just one of the major water management issues facing China’s urban areas.
They use nature-based solutions, such as rain gardens, green roofs, constructed wetlands, and permeable pavement, to naturally capture, slow down, and filter stormwater.
Moreover, the Ministry of Finance offers additional funding (up to 10 percent of the initial amount) for cities that develop public-private partnerships to finance or operate sponge city projects.
These cities have begun developing plans, securing financing, and implementing sponge city projects.
Wuhan, which has invested two billion RMB in 104 projects, efficiently managed heavy storms on June 11, 2016.
For example, in 2010, New York City released a city-wide green infrastructure plan that integrates new rain gardens and green roofs into existing stormwater systems to improve overall performance at a projected cost of $5.3 billion, $1.5 billion less than a comparable gray infrastructure approach.
China’s central government is providing a significant amount of funding for the pilot cities, but the subsidies are far from enough to fully fund sponge city construction.
Even though the central government is offering financial incentives to encourage the use of public-private partnerships, securing private investment could be difficult.
Nevertheless, leveraging private sector financing is crucial for the success of the sponge city program, so local governments will need to identify innovative financing tools to operationalize their sponge city plans.
There are four possible ways Chinese city governments could finance sponge cities: Levy a surcharge to supplement existing water resource fees.

Global Water Pressure Pumps Market to Witness Surge during the Forecast Period of 2017 – 2022.
This growth can be attributed to factors such as growing construction sectors, rising disposable income, rapid industrialization in developing countries, increasing water scarcity and rising level of urbanization.
This report is an in-depth and professional analysis of the current as well as future scenario of the global water pressure pumps market.
Request Free Sample Report @ www.marketresearchhub.com/enquiry.php?type=S&repid=1174649 In terms of technology, the centrifugal water pressure pump segment accounted for the largest market share in the overall market, and it is expected to grow at a significant CAGR during the period 2017 – 2022.
Water scarcity across the globe is one of the key factors driving the growth for water pressure pumps, as governments around the globe are directing industries to recycle and reuse water.
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27b Cubic Meters of Water Wasted Annually.
A staggering 27 billion cubic meters of water are wasted in Iran every year, according to the head of the Department of Environment.
Speaking at a water conference on Tuesday in Shahr-e-Kord, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province, Massoumeh Ebtekar added that the only surefire way to reduce water loss is by correcting consumption patterns in agriculture and industries, the Persian-language daily Ettelaat reported.
"Iran’s annual water consumption tops 97 billion cubic meters, while the country only has 88 bcm of renewable sources," Isa Kalantari, former agriculture minister, said.
Illegal water wells, which number 170,000, have emerged as a major problem for the water authorities trying to curb the high extraction and consumption rates, namely in key agricultural regions.
In spite of all warnings, the excessive withdrawal of water from aquifers continues in the agriculture sector, which is hardly justified or profitable.
About 92% of the country’s water resources are used up by unsustainable and wasteful farming practices.
Experts predict that the country’s water scarcity will hit crisis level by 2025, when available renewable water will be less than 1,000 cubic meters per capita, down from 2,000 cubic meters in 1950.
They say if water consumption patterns do not change in the near future, many parts of the country will turn into barren desert while entire towns and villages will become uninhabitable.

Meeting on water scarcity flooded by river in Turkey’s Antalya.
A meeting on water scarcity and drought in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on July 11 was ironically flooded by a nearby river after it rose above its normal level, Doğan News Agency has reported.
The meeting was held in Antalya’s Manavgat district at a restaurant located on the banks of Manavgat River.
The event was hosted by the Manavgat Chamber of Agriculture and gathered many officials including the district’s governor, Nazmi Günlü.
Officials launched the meeting after scarcity and drought in the region became a pressing issue, emphasizing that agricultural products in the province were damaged due to a recent drought and matched with the problem of irrigation.
“This meeting and the issues that will be discussed are important for our district,” Günlü said.
The president of the Manavgat Chamber of Agriculture, Rasim Metin, said they were currently holding meetings with the regional directorates of the Agricultural Insurance Pool of Turkey (TARSİM) to find a solution to the problem.
Another top agriculture official said the products had been left in plantations as they were not collected due to the drought.
As the meeting was continuing, the river’s water level rose, with tables prepared for an upcoming meal being almost half-submerged in water.
The meeting was temporarily suspended and was launched again after the water was removed.

Climate Change Will Make It Worse..
Extreme flooding and droughts take a major toll on the global supply of wheat, accounting for about 40 percent of the fluctuations in annual yields, a recent study has found.
The research gives new weight to scientists’ warnings about the effect of runaway climate change on food production.
Climate change is expected to exacerbate these extreme weather patterns, the researchers noted, making crops even more vulnerable in the decades to come.
The study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre analyzed harvest and climate data in wheat-producing countries between 1980 and 2010.
The wetter climate breeds pests and diseases that wipe out plants and shrink the annual harvest.
“They are emerging in a statistically significant way.” The findings were published last month in the journal Environmental Research Letters, and the researchers are now expanding the study to examine corn and rice.
But water scarcity ― yet another impact of global climate change ― would likely decrease rice production as well.
As food production drops, prices will go up.
Studies have already found that manmade global warming has driven up the cost of food by as much as 20 percent over the past few decades.

Team 5 Medical Foundation and Veterans Without Orders Announce Strategic Partnership.
The new "Water and Wellness" initiative will address both the causes and consequences of the world water crisis.
Veterans Without Orders (VWO), a nonprofit focused on combatting the world water crisis, and Team 5 Medical Foundation, a nonprofit that provides medical care to the most overlooked areas of the world, will merge capabilities for their "Water and Wellness" initiative.
Every year, 1.5 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases and 3.4 million – mostly children – die as a result, making it the leading cause of disease and death worldwide.
Serving as the "tip-of-the-spear" for addressing clean-water issues, VWO mission teams provide clean-water filters and sanitation training to women and children in the communities they visit.
"Our focus on clean water filtration has always been to provide the most immediate and easy-to-implement remedy to bring a community back to health," said Wilson Suarez, a Civil Affairs veteran who has joined several clean water missions with Veterans Without Orders.
"This partnership will be transformational in what we’re able to accomplish on our clean water missions, both short-term through on-the-ground medical care and long-term through the education and training we provide."
The "Water and Wellness" mission team will deliver clean water filters, medical aid, training and education to remote villages only accessible by foot and canoe.
Looking forward, upcoming Team 5 medical missions will be supplemented by a VWO volunteer delivering clean water filters and sanitation training.
To learn more about Team 5, visit: http://www.team-5.org https://www.facebook.com/Team5Foundation/ About Veterans Without Orders Veterans Without Orders is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to leverage a worldwide network of skilled Civil Affairs veterans to address the world water crisis.

Need for Clean Water Bolsters Growth of Global Metal Biocides Market.
San Francisco, California, July 12, 2017: TMR Research presents an assessment of the historical developments in the global metal biocides and their comparison with present-day market situation in its research report.
The demand for metal biocides is expected to rise in the coming years as there is growing awareness amongst industries to treat the water that is let out into water bodies.
In the coming years, this demand will be backed by the increasing need for clean water, which can only be derived by treating water.
The usage of metal biocides in paints and coatings, medical products, wood preservation, and food and beverages industry is also estimated to fuel the growth of the global market in the coming years.
In terms of region, the global metal biocides market is segmented into Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Rest of the World.
Of these, the North America metal biocides market is expected to lead the pack due to strong presence of several industries.
The growing uptake of metal biocides in the food and beverages industry of North America is also expected to keep this regional market at the forefront.
The research report offers an insightful take on the competitive landscape present in the global market along with an assessment of the research and development strategies of these companies.
Additionally, the publication also evaluates the financial overview, business and marketing strategies, and expansion plans for the coming few years.

Developing world drought threat to EU rice and cotton intensifies research efforts.
The report, entitled Vulnerabilities of Europe’s economy to global water scarcity and drought revealed that supplies of animal feed, rice, cotton, grapes and even pistachios could be impacted in the near future as they come from regions that have a shortage of water.
‘Right now it is more like an alert,’ said Professor Bart van den Hurk, who coordinates the EU-funded IMPREX project, which produced the report as part of its efforts to analyse the links between climate change and water.
According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the frequency and intensity of heatwaves and droughts will rise over the coming years as man-made climate change takes hold.
Shocking Dr Ertug Ercin, the lead author of the report, said that they were surprised when they realised just how vulnerable some of Europe’s food products were.
‘Can you imagine the chocolate industry without cocoa,’ said Dr Ercin, from the Water Footprint Network, a Dutch non-governmental organisation which is part of the IMPREX project.
‘We always look at the supply side of the water issue,’ said said Dr Ercin.
Analysing water demand is part of a broader effort by the IMPREX project to encourage public officials and businesses to take climate change forecasts into account when making decisions by predicting how global warming will lead to extreme weather in Europe.
It’s in part driven by a personal commitment by Prof. van den Hurk to help people make better use of climate forecasts, where computer models can use satellite and ground measurements to extrapolate how climate change will affect us.
‘I’m really on a mission to embed this physical climate science further down the chain,’ he said.

The report, entitled Vulnerabilities of Europe’s economy to global water scarcity and drought revealed that supplies of animal feed, rice, cotton, grapes and even pistachios could be impacted in the near future as they come from regions that have a shortage of water.
In fact, over a third of Europe’s water needs come from other parts of the world, due to imported crops.
‘Right now it is more like an alert,’ said Professor Bart van den Hurk, who coordinates the EU-funded IMPREX project, which produced the report as part of its efforts to analyse the links between climate change and water.
‘The next step is really to look at climate change sentinels (indicators) in the areas of exposure … and see whether you can actually translate climate change effects in those areas to European sensitivities,’ said Prof. van den Hurk, who works for The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Dutch national weather service.
‘Can you imagine the chocolate industry without cocoa,’ said Dr Ercin, from the Water Footprint Network, a Dutch non-governmental organisation which is part of the IMPREX project.
‘We always look at the supply side of the water issue,’ said said Dr Ercin.
Analysing water demand is part of a broader effort by the IMPREX project to encourage public officials and businesses to take climate change forecasts into account when making decisions by predicting how global warming will lead to extreme weather in Europe.
‘I’m really on a mission to embed this physical climate science further down the chain,’ he said.
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One of the main ways of acheiving these targets is through innovation – finding ways to use less energy and to generate energy sustainably.

Benefits of dams, reservoirs and irrigation schemes occur mostly upstream Downstream populations face scarcity, with hotspots shifting from 1971-2010 About 20 per cent saw increase in water availability, 24 per cent saw decrease [NEW YORK] Reservoirs, dams and irrigation systems have shifted global patterns of water scarcity over three decades, “causing a distinct pattern of beneficiaries and losers”, according to recent research.
The researchers say it is the first to provide a global accounting of regional and local water impacts caused by human intervention, and whether it has led to a reshuffle of water scarcity hotspots.
Using five global hydrological models, they examined the evolution of water availability, demand and scarcity globally from 1971 to 2010.
They say their method produces scarcity estimates that are more realistic — and greater — than those produced by previous approaches.
According to Ted Veldkamp, lead author and researcher at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over a third of the world’s population was affected by changes in water availability during the study period.
“It’s common sense that taking water out of a river will leave less for those people downstream,” says Veldkamp.
“But, it’s not so straightforward.
“Downstream decision makers have the responsibility to look up,” Veldkamp points out.
“In an ideal case, both players would [work together to] try to optimise their stakes and come to an optimal allocation of fresh water resources that serves their collective needs best.” “The study is an excellent example of how fast growing global data availability can help to understand the potential upstream–downstream conflicts in data-poor regions, such as large parts of Africa and Asia,” says Matti Kummu, professor at the Water and Development Research Group at Aalto University, Finland.
“National and international river basin organisations can use the results to have objective, scientific knowledge of the potential impacts of upstream water use to better negotiate treaties between the interest groups,” adds Kummu.