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Live Learning Sessions / Webinars

• Improving Community Resilience with Resilient Water Management Strategies - Emerging Water Management Planning, Conservation, Water Quality, and Wastewater Treatment Strategies

  

  This course examines new planning tools and approaches to address emerging water issues. Discover how to strengthen long-term community resilience with a sustainable, healthy water supply and how to adopt recently developed water collection and retention strategies where applicable.

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• Improving Community Resilience with Resilient Water Management Strategies - Examining Water Behavior and Existing Management Techniques

  

  Growing and concentrating populations, shifting weather patterns, increasing frequency and ferocity of storm events, disappearing water supplies, and rising costs have made the provision of potable water and the management of other water-related issues increasingly difficult for many communities. This course explores the current state of water usage and water management practices and the emerging issues affecting potable water supply, stormwater, floodwater, and wastewater management that may affect those usage and management practices and inform the creation of alternative, more resilient ones.

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• Nehemiah Initiative Seattle: Leveraging Black Churches to Stabilize Communities and Address Racial Inequities in Seattle’s Central District

  

  Seattle has ranked among the country’s fastest growing cities since the mid-1990’s causing gentrification and displacement of vulnerable communities.
  
  For example, African Americans accounted for 73 percent of the Seattle’s Central District (CD) population in 1970 and have fallen to less than 14 percent today. As a result, Black churches in the CD face difficult decisions about whether to stay or relocate.
  
  However, the churches own property and other assets and, working as a network, could mitigate this gentrification and displacement through strategic real-estate development. This vision is advanced by the Nehemiah Initiative Seattle - a collaboration focused on developing the significant real estate assets of Black churches to stabilize and benefit the CD’s African American community. Since 2019, The Nehemiah Initiative has been collaborating with the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington through a series of interdisciplinary design studios focused on this vision. This presentation will provide a brief history of Seattle’s Central District, an overview of the Nehemiah Initiative, and the mutual benefits of collaboration between the academy and community.

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• Improving Community Resilience with Resilient Water Management Strategies - Forecasting Emerging Water Issues and Their Impact on Community Planning

  

  Growing and concentrating populations, shifting weather patterns, increasing frequency and ferocity of storm events, disappearing water supplies, and rising costs have made the provision of potable water and the management of other water-related issues increasingly difficult for many communities. This course explores the current state of water usage and water management practices and the emerging issues affecting potable water supply, stormwater, floodwater, and wastewater management that may affect those usage and management practices and inform the creation of alternative, more resilient ones.

  No classes currently scheduled.  Request a Live Session or Webinar