Runoff
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As a result, during heavy storms, the
runoff
overloads drainage systems, causing pollutants to run through city streets and into local ecosystems.
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Do they, perhaps, include green infrastructure, so that we can take
runoff
and water that's going out of our houses and clean it and filter it and grow urban street trees?
As evident in this slide from Lake Nabugabo in Uganda, the agricultural
runoff
from this crop, which goes into these buckets, is the sole source of drinking, cooking and bathing water for this village.
The roofs not only temper urban heat island impact but they save energy, and therefore money, the emissions that cause climate change, and they also reduce stormwater
runoff.
But if you do not look at grasslands but look down into them, you find that most of the soil in that grassland that you've just seen is bare and covered with a crust of algae, leading to increased
runoff
and evaporation.
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