Water Management, Ecological Health and Societal Impacts

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Living With Water - A Solutions Focused Panel Discussion

This video could be of interest to anyone whose community environment includes this vital but mercurial element!

By Aimée K. Thomas, Ph.D. Director of Environment Program Department of Biological Sciences & Environment Program Loyola University New Orleans.

“Water Management and its Ecological Health and Societal Impacts” panel discussion was hosted on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at Loyola New Orleans by the Loyola University New Orleans Environment Program and Department of Biological Sciences in conjunction with the Louisiana Master Naturalists of Greater New Orleans.
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The panelists are successful and inspiring leaders from the Greater New Orleans community who were invited to discuss the role their organizations play in storm water management, utilizing innovative approaches to solve environmental water issues so that we can all learn how to reduce our impact and sustainably embrace living with water.  We recorded it and it is available on our YouTube channel. Please share to others through email, social media and your website.​

The purpose of our research is to bring different communities together in the hopes of developing creative sustainable ways of dealing with excess water around the city.

​We are also studying the changes, if any, that people make after learning about the significance of water and empowering them to take control of their environment! 

Our video on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLkX17iOtOE&t=0s​
Mirabeau Water Project
Resilience & Sustainability - Areas of Focus - Green Infrastructure - Hazard Mitigation - Stormwater Projects - Mirabeau Water Garden: Phase I - City of New Orleans (nola.gov)

Web. www.loyno.edu/environment

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A little background on this event:  New Orleans is a coastal city which is particularly vulnerable to flooding and faces increasing threats of hurricanes, sea level rise, and subsidence, which are all factors that increase the severity of flooding.

​Because on average the city gets 64 inches of rain each year, we have flooding issues that have been solved by pumping excess water from the streets to a canal system that feeds to Lake Pontchartrain using gray infrastructure.

The participants are New Orleans citizens including local high school teachers and students, members of non-profits, industry figures, scientists, engineers, and academics. They have all learned about the formation of southeast Louisiana, the founding of New Orleans, gray and green infrastructure, and creating the best tools for educating the community about sustainably embracing water in our city.

Our Panelists include:

USACE: William Veatch, Hydrologist,
Mastodonte: Arien Hall & Luisa Abballe, Business Owners
Sewerage & Water Board New Orleans: Tyler Antwerp,
Director Thrive Nola: Willie Autman,
Green Works Manager Urban Conservancy: Sam Commagere, Program Manager