Fwd: New report: U.S. cities can save billions, clean waterways, & green neighborhoods, by leveraging private investment in green infrastructure
Ruth Gravanis
Date: February 11, 2012 11:27:26 AM PSTSubject: New report: U.S. cities can save billions, clean waterways, & green neighborhoods, by leveraging private investment in green infrastructureReply-To: camp...@mbaysav.orgFrom NRDC’s blog:New report: U.S. cities can save billions, clean waterways, & green neighborhoods, by leveraging private investment in green infrastructureToday NRDC released a new report on how local and state governments can stimulate potentially billions of dollars of private investment, to offset the costs of repairing our nation’s broken stormwater infrastructure. It’s worth a read for policymakers, investors, and anyone who receives a wastewater or stormwater bill from a local utility. In other words, anyone concerned with how municipalities and wastewater utilities will pay for much-needed water infrastructure investments.
Stormwater and sewage overflows are leading sources of water pollution that we must address to meet the Clean Water Act’s goals -- first enacted forty years ago -- of fishable, swimmable, drinkable waters nationwide. And the overdue bill for our disinvestment in municipal water infrastructure over the last two decades totals in the hundreds of billions of dollars.