{"id":2605,"date":"2025-03-12T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:59:26","slug":"sao-paulo-implementing-sponge-city-approach-to-cope-with-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/sao-paulo-implementing-sponge-city-approach-to-cope-with-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Sao Paulo Implementing &#8216;Sponge City&#8217; Approach to Cope with Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As cities around the world are pummeled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2024-05-08\/photos-brazil-floods-kill-dozens-leave-150-000-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intense downpours<\/a>\u00a0and frequent flooding, many are turning to rain gardens to sponge up all that water and relieve pressure on their sewerage systems.\u00a0 Here is how Sao Paulo, Brazil, is doing it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Sponge Megacity<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2024-sao-paulo-flooding-rain-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2024-sao-paulo-flooding-rain-garden<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781643364193\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cities around the world are pummeled by intense downpours\u00a0and frequent flooding, many are turning to rain gardens to sponge up all that water and relieve pressure on their sewerage systems.\u00a0 Here is how Sao Paulo, Brazil, is doing it. The Sponge Megacity https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2024-sao-paulo-flooding-rain-garden Related Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}