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Thursday, January 31st, 2013Guest on The Infra Blog: Robert Wendelgass, Clean Water Action
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Bob Wendelgass has been President and CEO of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund since November of 2010. Prior to that, he spent five years as National Deputy Director for Clean Water Action, working with its state offices on planning and implementation of campaigns, elections and fundraising. He also served 15 years as Pennsylvania […]
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Tom Curtis, American Water Works Association
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Tom Curtis is Deputy Executive Director of Government Affairs for the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Prior to assuming this position, Curtis served for more than twenty years with several public policy associations, including Director of the Natural Resources Committee of the National Governors’ Association, and Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Liaison with the Environmental Council […]
View this complete post...Failure to Act: The Impact of Current Infrastructure Investment on America’s Economic Future
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Infrastructure is the physical framework upon which the U.S. economy operates and the nation’s standard of living depends. Everything depends on this framework, including transporting goods, powering factories, heating and cooling office buildings, and enjoying a glass of clean water.
Interactive Report: The Value of Water
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
XYLEM
The 2012 Xylem Value of Water Index found that nearly all Americans (90 percent) consider water an important service on par with electricity and heat. They recognize that demands on the nation’s water resources are growing.
The Cracks in the Nation’s Foundation
Monday, December 10th, 2012The New York Times Sunday EditorialDecember 9th, 2012 Across the coasts of New York and New Jersey, hundreds of millions of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage are spilling into waterways and the ocean. The immediate cause is equipment damage from Hurricane Sandy, but as Michael Schwirtz recently reported in The Times, aging plants […]
View this complete post...Valuing Florida’s Clean Water
Friday, November 30th, 2012
STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE
In 1998 the EPA adopted the Clean Water Action Plan, which stated that excessive nutrient pollution results in greater than expected growth of macrophytes or phytoplankton, and potentially harmful algae blooms or outbreaks leading to declining oxygen levels, an imbalance among aquatic species, public health risks, and a general degradation of the aquatic resource. The “Key Action” for addressing nutrient over-enrichment was a requirement that states develop and implement numeric limits on the amount of so-called “nutrients” – phosphorus and nitrogen – allowed in waterbodies by the year 2004.
Interactive Map: Water Costs Getting More Expensive
Friday, October 5th, 2012
Growing Green: How Green Infrastructure Can Improve Community Livability and Public Health
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
AMERICAN RIVERS
This white paper focuses on the potential benefits to health, safety, and equitable distribution of resources for urban communities that green infrastructure can provide. Green infrastructure practices, such as rain gardens, green roofs, and permeable pavement, are designed to capture rainwater where it falls where it can infiltrate onsite to minimize pollution impacts to nearby streams and rivers.
Interactive Map: Fracking Across the United States
Friday, June 8th, 2012
EARTHJUSTICE The country is in the midst of an unprecedented gas drilling boom—brought on by a controversial technology called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” Along with this fracking-fueled gas rush have come troubling reports of poisoned drinking water, polluted air, mysterious animal deaths, industrial disasters and explosions. We call them “Fraccidents.” The map below displays a […]
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