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Urban Sanitation Is a Climate and Economic Issue Too

The City Fix

Along the Ngong River in Mukuru, one of Nairobi’s slum neighborhoods and home to more than 100,000 people, residents face a dual threat when the rains come. First, the river rises, flooding into streets and houses. Then the water reaches. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Who will win? Meet the top 6 finalists for our 2024 People’s Choice Award

Partnership for Public Service

Christopher Johnston, Rachel Han, Ryan Thurlwell and the VA Mobile App Team Christopher Johnston, Rachel Han and Ryan Thurwell of the Department of Veterans Affairs created a new mobile app that is transforming how veterans access and manage doctor’s appointments, medical claims and records, and more. Yan Ping (Judy) Chen and Jay D.

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Why hide from data?

Barrett & Greene

Though this may be short sighted, we can certainly understand that there's pressure to use limited resources on direct services, like sanitation, pot-hole filling or public safety. Here’s where the political realities of life run headlong into our quest to help states and localities provide better management and policy.

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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote a piece suggesting something similar for the Ballpark neighborhood of Salt Lake (" Creating 'community safety partnership neighborhood management programs as a management and mitigation strategy for public nuisances: Part 3 (like homeless shelters) ," 2020). Parks conservancies as more engaged parks managers.

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Calming airport data turbulence with EASE

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Stephen Saunders, the managing director of EASE Airport Operations, LLC. When interviewing team members at CVG on their experience with EASE, the senior manager of airport operations at CVG shared that important information is often scattered across other platforms.

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30 Most Interesting Water Safety and Management Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

The phrase “water management” means a lot of things. From how to efficiently distribute water to the public, making sure water is sanitized or managing the sewage or waste water, this broad term has many meanings. You’ll love reading the amazing things companies like IBM are doing to help technology improve water.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This comes up because a building materials recycling and resale organization in Philadelphia, Philly Reclaim , is shutting down because it was behind in rent, has organizational management issues, and the building is being sold (" Tacony salvage shop needs to move by Monday. It’s giving away sinks, lumber, and more ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).