Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
Urban Waters: New Study Highlights the Impacts of Urban Development on Streams
Amy Trice, Lapham Conservation Fellow
December 19, 2012 | Urban Rivers, Stormwater & Sewage
As a child, I had the opportunity to grow up in an idyllic setting in a small southern town on the Flint River. Back then, fishing and swimming with my Grandfather in the Flint, or its nearby tributaries, consumed the summers, along with homemade desserts and ice cream. I had no idea that people lived in places where streams weren’t fishable and swimmable, let alone buried and put into pipes. Oh, to be young and naïve.
Read more »A Clean Water Solution: The Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard
Gary Belan, Director, Clean Water Program
December 18, 2012 | Water Pollution, Stormwater & Sewage, Urban Rivers
Who would have thought that our water pollution problems could be solved by the 1%? Well, not the 1% of the well off, but by 1% increments. That is the concept behind the new Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard guide we are releasing today.
Read more »Investing in Resilient Infrastructure after Superstorm Sandy
Devin Dotson, Associate Director of Communications
December 13, 2012 | Climate Change, Floods & Floodplains, Stormwater & Sewage
When Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast in early November, it wreaked unprecedented destruction. In addition to flooding streets and subway tunnels, uprooting trees, damaging cars and houses, and injuring and killing residents of the area, Sandy also caused incredible damage to New York and New Jersey’s water infrastructure.
Read more »Alexandra Cousteau Talks Sustainable Water Management
Katie Rousseau, Associate Director of Clean Water Program
December 11, 2012 | Stormwater & Sewage, Water Pollution, Most Endangered Rivers
Last week’s GreenTown conference was the first step in a long process towards sustainability for the City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio. In a joint effort, the City and County along with many other local folks put together this conference that not only told the story about local sustainability efforts but also brought in big names from across the country to motivate and inspire the attendees.
Read more »Urban Rivers: Managing Clean Water In The City
Katherine Baer, Senior Director, Clean Water and Water Supply Programs
December 5, 2012 | Urban Rivers, Stormwater & Sewage
I’ll never forget the moment I watched, astonished, a tall man nonchalantly wad up his burger wrapper, step into the street, and toss it directly into the storm drain that led to the Chattahoochee River. How could he not know that streams in our cities are often right beneath us, hidden and buried away, but still leading to our creeks and eventually our rivers?
Read more »Reducing Flooding and Cleaning Water in Columbia, South Carolina
Rebecca Haynes, Associate Director, Southeast Conservation
November 28, 2012 | Floods & Floodplains, Stormwater & Sewage
You don’t normally think of the southeast when you think about green infrastructure, but we are working to change that. There are cities all over the southeast that are integrating green infrastructure into their solutions to the many problems that excessive stormwater runoff creates. Columbia, SC is the latest to move forward with the idea. The stormwater system is aging and inadequate.
Read more »Infrastructure at the Forefront in Disasters
Stacey Detwiler, Associate, Conservation & Government Relations
November 16, 2012 | Stormwater & Sewage, Water Pollution
It can be easy to forget just how important our water infrastructure can be, until a catastrophic event like Hurricane Sandy comes along and knocks these systems out of commission.
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