ESM102/week6-201701/outline-links.html

Opening slide

Main points today

• grey vs. green
• ecosystem services
• small projects can be risky in their own way
• water purification requires energy - lots of it
• we can measure things make us healthier, happier and live longer (not only how much money was involved)

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Week 6: Benefits from water projects

Water projects provide benefits and, in fact, define our civilizations

• large water projects
• Grey vs Green
• ecosystem restoration
• Accounting for Ecosystem Services

Smaller scale projects can have less impact, but also have different set of risks.

• Appropriate Scale
• Water Purfication
• water year

MEASURING IMPROVEMENT

• measurement
• Indexes
• environmental indexes
• GPI