US Edition"We Want to Reverse the Deal" : Paris Presents Its "Rain Plan" to Make the City More Permeable
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On Thursday, the city hall of Paris presented its rain plan, aimed at transforming Paris into a "towel city" in order to refresh the air and stop congesting the sewers.
The municipality presented this Thursday a plan for better rainwater management, while Paris remains "at 75% impermeable". These waters are discharged and mixed with waste water in the Parisian sewer systems: a surplus is then thrown into the Seine to avoid overflows. To limit this phenomenon, the town hall wants to make the capital a "sponge on at least 55% of its territory" within 25 years. - "We want to reverse the deal": Paris presents its "…
The article Cities as a sponge: Defying climate change with rainwater was first published in the online magazine BASIC thinking. About our newsletter UPDATE you start every morning well informed into the day. Heat periods, heavy rain and drought pose new challenges for cities. With the principle of the sponge city municipalities with rainwater want to defy climate change. Whether heat, heavy rain, floods or drought: All regions of Germany are no…
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