Running head: WATER IMPACTS 1

Reducing Urban Water Impacts

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WATER IMPACTS 2

Reducing Urban Water Impacts

Low impact development (LID) refers to practices and systems that use or copy natural

processes that end in the evapotranspiration, infiltration or usage of stormwater so as to protect

the quality of water and aquatic habitat associated. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

presently uses the word green infrastructure to indicate to the management of rainy weather runs

using the above processes and to refer to the natural areas that provide flood protection, habitat,

cleaner water and air. On both the regional and site scale, LID practices target to restore, create

and preserve green space using rainwater harvest methods, soils and vegetation. LID is a tactic to

land development and re-development that works with environment to manage stormwater as

adjacent to its source as probable. LID engages principles like preserving and restoring natural

land features, lessening effective impermeability to create functional and attractive drainage that

take stormwater as a resource rather than a waste product.

Many practices exist that have been used to observe to these ideologies namely,

bioretention facilities, vegetated rooftops, rain barrels, rain gardens and pavements that are

permeable. By applying LID practices and principles, water can be able to be managed in a way

that decreases the effect of built parts and encourages natural movement of water inside an

ecosystem or watershed. If applied on a wide scale, LID can maintain and restore the ecological

and hydrologic functions of a watershed