Resources

The New Jersey Developers' Green Infrastructure Guide, put together by New Jersey Future and the New Jersey Builders Association addresses basic questions about green stormwater infrastructure: what it is, how it works, what are its costs and benefits, and why it makes good business sense. Green infrastructure is not the perfect solution for every setting or every project, but it is versatile, it is powerful and it’s the future of stormwater ...

Mayor Lester Taylor of East Orange delivered this presentation at the 2017 WaterNow Alliance Summit to stress the importance of understanding the current water reality in one of New Jersey's oldest cities. This presentation outlines the challenges faced in water system management, the increasing demands on water sources, the degraded state of water infrastructure, and the strategies that have been implemented to safeguard drinking water quality ...

This economic impact analysis from the The Value of Water Campaign quantifies the the need to increase investments in the nation's water infrastructure and the impacts on economic growth and employment. Based on a 2016 assessment by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), this study estimates that the US needs to invest an additional $82 billion per year in water infrastructure at all levels of government over the next 10 years to meet ...

At the "Fostering Municipal and Utility Partnerships for Water Quality Management" Workshop on Feb. 7, 2017, audience members learned about new best practices that will help municipal governments, working in partnership with their utilities, conduct/implement water loss audits, utility asset management and green infrastructure planning and implementation. The workshop was presented in partnership with the Association of Environmental ...

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 the report, 50 million gallons is equivalent to the daily water use of a city more than ...