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Water Quality and Resources

Sustainability issues can be abstract, but they can also be expressed in terms so personal, we begin to understand how they affect us directly. Consider these questions regarding water quality and resources:

Will regional droughts affect my residential well? How should a utility decide which community has the greatest need of city water? What impact will different modes of energy production have on water quality and quantity? May climate change affect the abundance of trout in our local stream? What are the tradeoffs between transportation development and water and wetland resources?

PROPOSED PROJECTS

  1. Threat Assessment: Frameworks, Tools, and Indicators

  2. Virtual/Digital Watershed (Change Effects and Mitigation Simulation)

  3. Linkages and Tradeoff Investigation (Energy Technologies versus Water Quality and Quantity)

  4. Watershed Lab: Local Demonstrations and Case Studies

Contact Information

The BRSI offices are located in downtown Asheville, Suite 2 of the mezzanine level of the
Haywood Park Hotel

Mailing Address:
1 Battery Park Ave., Suite M2
Asheville, NC, 28801.

Phone: 828-348-5191

Email: admin@blueridgesustainability.org

And you can always send us any inquiries you might have via our contact form

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