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What does my house look like with a green facade? How will my garden change with climate-resistant planting? And how can the street where I live be planted with trees and perennials in a climate-proof way?
With the help of our app, you can virtually adapt your environment to the consequences of climate change and make your very own blue-green vision a digital reality!
Our cities are compacted spaces with often heavily sealed soils. Rainwater has difficulty seeping away here, so much of it is led via the sewer system to the sewage treatment plant or into a larger body of water. This disrupts the natural water cycle. This becomes particularly visible during droughts in summer, when vegetation withers and small bodies of water dry out. If rain does fall during these times, only a small amount of it can be absorbed by the dried out soil and larger amounts flow off the surface. During heavy rain, this sometimes leads to flooding, which poses a risk to life and limb and causes major property damage.
The negative effects on the natural water balance can be reduced with the natural management of rainwater. Rainwater should, if possible, remain in the natural water cycle at the place where it falls or flow back into it via a short route. The aim is to redesign cities so that they absorb rainwater like a sponge, store it and release it again in times when there is less rain - for example for watering plants. The corresponding types of management are infiltration, evaporation, use or drainage of rainwater into nearby bodies of water. Using a model house, we show and explain various measures for natural and local rainwater management that you can implement! We definitely want to imitate!
Climate adaptation.City – adapting our cities to the consequences of climate change
As part of the future initiative Klima.Werk (www.klima-werk.de), the Emschergenossenschaft is working together with the municipalities of the Ruhr area on water-conscious urban development. The aim of this is to adapt the cities in our region to the consequences of climate change such as heavy rain or heat. Many climate adaptation measures have already been implemented in cities or are being planned.
In our app we show the tree trenches on the waterway in Bochum as an example. A tree trench is a combination of a tree location and a trench as an underground storage facility for rainwater. As a result of climate change, on the one hand, hot and long dry periods with too little water and, on the other hand, heavy rain events with too much water in a short period of time are increasing. Tree trenches can help counter both weather extremes.
As part of our tree trench tour on the waterway in Bochum, discover how a tree trench works at four stops and get to know this innovative drainage system and its benefits for adapting the city to the consequences of climate change! You can start the tour at the level of the waterway, house number 307 in 44789 Bochum, using the stele or the corresponding marker positioned there. The app helps you find the starting point.
The app was funded by the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the “Climate-resilient region with international appeal” funding program. The app was developed in cooperation and with the participation of the city of Bochum.
With the help of our app, you can virtually adapt your environment to the consequences of climate change and make your very own blue-green vision a digital reality!
Our cities are compacted spaces with often heavily sealed soils. Rainwater has difficulty seeping away here, so much of it is led via the sewer system to the sewage treatment plant or into a larger body of water. This disrupts the natural water cycle. This becomes particularly visible during droughts in summer, when vegetation withers and small bodies of water dry out. If rain does fall during these times, only a small amount of it can be absorbed by the dried out soil and larger amounts flow off the surface. During heavy rain, this sometimes leads to flooding, which poses a risk to life and limb and causes major property damage.
The negative effects on the natural water balance can be reduced with the natural management of rainwater. Rainwater should, if possible, remain in the natural water cycle at the place where it falls or flow back into it via a short route. The aim is to redesign cities so that they absorb rainwater like a sponge, store it and release it again in times when there is less rain - for example for watering plants. The corresponding types of management are infiltration, evaporation, use or drainage of rainwater into nearby bodies of water. Using a model house, we show and explain various measures for natural and local rainwater management that you can implement! We definitely want to imitate!
Climate adaptation.City – adapting our cities to the consequences of climate change
As part of the future initiative Klima.Werk (www.klima-werk.de), the Emschergenossenschaft is working together with the municipalities of the Ruhr area on water-conscious urban development. The aim of this is to adapt the cities in our region to the consequences of climate change such as heavy rain or heat. Many climate adaptation measures have already been implemented in cities or are being planned.
In our app we show the tree trenches on the waterway in Bochum as an example. A tree trench is a combination of a tree location and a trench as an underground storage facility for rainwater. As a result of climate change, on the one hand, hot and long dry periods with too little water and, on the other hand, heavy rain events with too much water in a short period of time are increasing. Tree trenches can help counter both weather extremes.
As part of our tree trench tour on the waterway in Bochum, discover how a tree trench works at four stops and get to know this innovative drainage system and its benefits for adapting the city to the consequences of climate change! You can start the tour at the level of the waterway, house number 307 in 44789 Bochum, using the stele or the corresponding marker positioned there. The app helps you find the starting point.
The app was funded by the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the “Climate-resilient region with international appeal” funding program. The app was developed in cooperation and with the participation of the city of Bochum.
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