Anne-apolis

As a lifelong resident of a water-scarce region, I never complain about the rain. However, living in a city, one is often conscious of storm-water when it causes flooding, or even pooling in the carpark exactly in an arc around your car! For several years, I have been part of a study group on permeable paving, a Nature-based Solution to urban storm-water, headed up by Prof Neil Armitage of UCT. Permeable paving solution Creative commons licensed: https://laturfandpaver.com/shop/turf-block/ Most Nature-based Solutions use vegetation: many of us are familiar with constructed wetlands,  green roofs , swales and rain gardens , where the planting does much of the work in absorbing the rainwater, trapping it in its roots and directing any water that is not needed down into the sub-surface "groundwater". This contrasts with conventional storm-water engineering, where the rainwater is encouraged to flow away as quickly as possible, using impermeable sloping surfaces (roads, paving, p...