A report released on Jan. 17, 2017 by the estimates that statewide, New Jersey water utilities lose approximately 130 million gallons of clean drinking water per day through leaky pipes. Of that total, the report estimates that 50 million gallons per day could be recovered cost-effectively through investments in new or upgraded infrastructure. According to… Continue reading Report on the Evaluation of Water Audit Data for New Jersey Water Utilities
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The Green Infrastructure Exchange Has Launched!
The Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange is a new practitioner network that supports, via accelerating peer learning, innovation and implementation, managers of public green infrastructure programs seeking to adopt and grow green stormwater infrastructure programs.
One Water Roadmap: The Sustainable Management of Life’s Most Essential Resource
This report from the U.S. Water Alliance makes a case for the One Water approach and highlights successful strategies and real-world examples in practice.
Stormwater Management Toolkit from America’s Rivers
American Rivers has tools available to help public utility managers communicate about and assist them in fostering public support for collecting fees to upgrade and/or maintain water infrastructure. The toolkit contains: A stormwater utility overview and technical resources A strategy for building public support for a stormwater utility Sample outreach materials (Spanish versions available) Draft press… Continue reading Stormwater Management Toolkit from America’s Rivers
Green Acres and Green Infrastructure
The Green Acres and Green Infrastructure report from Jersey Water Works’ Green Infrastructure Committee recommends ways for New Jersey Green Acres Program to allow green stormwater infrastructure in existing parks. To prepare, the committee sought and received input from Jersey Water Works members.
New Guidance: Designing Parks and Public Spaces with Green Infrastructure
The Jersey Water Works Green Infrastructure Committee has released recommendations for designing new parks and public spaces with green infrastructure to manage stormwater. Green infrastructure features allow parks and public spaces to manage stormwater, control flooding, and improve water quality in ways that complement and can even enhance their other functions. Green infrastructure features can be… Continue reading New Guidance: Designing Parks and Public Spaces with Green Infrastructure
Promoting Green Streets: A recipe for integrating water and transportation infrastructure investment
This guide, developed by The River Network and Hawkins Partners, Inc., helps support city administrators, planners, designers, and environmental advocates in determining the potential — and developing strategies — for green streets in their cities and watersheds. Many large cities have made intentional commitments to green street strategies to reduce stormwater runoff that contributes to combined sewer overflows.
Green Infrastructure Toolkit from the Georgetown Climate Center
This Green Infrastructure Toolkit from the Georgetown Climate Center can help local governments at different stages of their green infrastructure programs find the resources and examples that are most helpful to them.
Promoting the Value of Water and Water Efficiency
Resources from EPA WaterSense is a partnership program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that promotes the value of water efficiency and water-efficient products. As a promotional partner of WaterSense, Jersey Water Works has assembled the following WaterSense resources to promote the value of water and educate on water conservation and efficiency. Below are… Continue reading Promoting the Value of Water and Water Efficiency
Wasted: How to Fix America’s Sewers
This report highlights how low-income households are affected by the costs of fixing combined sewer overflows. It also recommends strategies to help cities pay for the federally mandated improvements to these systems.