Catching Raindrops Where They Fall
The Center for Neighborhood Technology is launching a project to address the region’s pressing water problems. The project is called “Valuing Smarter Investments: Supporting Better Decisions for Water Infrastructure Provision in the Great Lakes Region.” The primary objective of the project is to improve water-related decision-making among civic leaders by helping them to understand the differences–environmental and economic–between traditionally-engineered water infrastructure and alternatives. Alternatives in this case are those based on either renewable and/or green infrastructure–the interconnected network of open spaces and natural areas that provides wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities and maintains the sustainability of our region.
Support for this project was received from the Joyce Foundation. For more information please see “Water Water Everywhere” in the latest issue of the Foundation’s Work in Progress.
