Urban water management faces mounting challenges—rapid urbanization, resource depletion, pollution, and climate-induced disasters. By 2050, water scarcity, aggravated by diverse contamination ...

BYU professor Rob Sowby teaches and studies environmental engineering, urban water infrastructure and sustainability. He has ...

The urban marsh helps filter polluted runoff from the surrounding area. It’s storm season, and that means flood season. When it rains, water sheets off the roofs, parking lots, and roads that ...

Flash flooding ranks among the top weather-related killers in the U.S. But what is it exactly, and how does it happen?

What Happens to Water Runoff When It Rains? 05/22/2024 | 1m 55s Video has Closed Captions | CC. California cities work to capture a much-needed water supply from urban runoff after rain storms.

Phosphorus levels leaving the farms were better than what came in from Lake Okeechobee, she said. While Lake O water carried 198 parts per billion of phosphorus, farm runoff had a cleaner 85 parts ...

In recent years, the Katy Prairie has become home to significant residential development, with hundreds of new homes. A new one under construction is Bergamo, on Stockdick School Road, near Porter ...

Grant: $300,000; Project description: The pond will be renovated to receive stormwater runoff from 245 acres of adjacent urban areas, using a multi-staged outlet and sediment forebays.

In this study the water use data of twenty-two urban areas in the Colorado River Basin Service area between 2005 and 2017 was retrieved from Hydroshare. These data were used to create Python functions ...