Porous cities

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Porous cities is a term applied to a collection of urban water conservation measures.

In the later 20th century, thinking on the management of urban runoff is completely reversed. Previously, it was handled with pipes and drains designed to carry the water away as quickly as possible. Current thinking seeks instead to retain runoff, both as a resource in the urban landscape and to protect the environments into which these drains once discharged their waste water.

[edit] See also

• Water conservation.
• Hydrology.
• Environmental design.
• Urban planning.

[edit] External links

• Water innovation - a description of soft engineering applied to urban water conservation.
• Georgia Tech Eco-Commons - an ecological water usage plan for Georgia Tech's Atlanta campus (in pdf format)