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2. 7 Landscaping Tips That Can Help Keep Water Out of Your ...

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   Get some fresh air and get ready to get your hands dirty with these ideas for using landscaping to keep water away from your house. ... trench to help maintain water runoff away from the house ...

3. Rain garden - Wikipedia

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   The first rain gardens were created to mimic the natural water retention areas that developed before urbanization occurred. The rain gardens for residential use were developed in 1990 in Prince George's County, Maryland, when Dick Brinker, a developer building a new housing subdivision had the idea to replace the traditional best management practices (BMP) pond with a bioretention area.

4. Water-sensitive urban design - Wikipedia

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   Water Sensitive Urban Design with Green Infrastructure in the bottom right corner.. Water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) is a land planning and engineering design approach which integrates the urban water cycle, including stormwater, groundwater, and wastewater management and water supply, into urban design to minimise environmental degradation and improve aesthetic and recreational appeal. [1]

5. Green infrastructure - Wikipedia

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   Sustainable landscape design features, such as tree preservation and minimum rootable soil volumes for new tree planting, use of structural soils, suspended paving systems, bioretention and biofiltration strategies and requiring the use of the holistic practices of Bay-Friendly Landscaping. [116] Water storage and harvesting through cisterns ...

6. Groundwater pumping is causing land to sink at record rate in ...

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   Groundwater pumping has been causing the land to sink at a record pace in California's San Joaquin Valley. New research suggests ways of addressing the problem. ... been altering the landscape ...

7. Opinion: Here's what's wrong with your perfectly drought ...

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   Los Angeles gardens and landscapes won't support the environment and threatened wildlife unless they use native plants. Low water use isn't enough.