Source: CITRIS

“CITRIS researchers at UC Berkeley are exploring new ways to use sensors to monitor our infrastructure—including water and traffic. The Lagrangian Sensor project, led by UC Berkeley Professor Alexandre Bayen, is developing new technologies for managing estuarial water systems like the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta of Northern California.”

Science and Development Network

Effective and affordable interventions that provide the global population with access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation are needed if water-borne diseases are ever to be controlled.

Ottawa Citizen

Statistics Canada is operating in a leaking building prone to power failures and facing “severe” new challenges due to climate change, an engineering report warns.

The warnings were included as part of the first national climate change assessment of Canada’s public infrastructure—a joint research project co-sponsored by a national association of engineers and the federal government.

WorldChanging

The Vattenfall/McKinsey Report “A Cost Curve for Greenhouse Gas Reduction” contains a graph (below) that everybody needs to see. The graph shows how much greenhouse gas abatement potential lies in some popular strategies/technologies, and simultaneously shows the monetary cost of each strategy.