Innovative Pathways, Smarter Spending, Better Outcomes

A Northwest Vision for 2040 Water Infrastructure paints a picture of how the Pacific Northwest can develop integrated systems to supply, purify, and manage water that are among the most sustainable and resilient in the world.

 

• "Smart and holistic approaches to water management will be crucial to the public, environmental, and economic health of the Pacific Northwest in the coming century. The Water Infrastructure report by the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure provides a clear vision for moving us into that future. Cutting across multiple disciplines, it offers new approaches for maximizing the value of our most precious resource."

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    Jeff Clarke

    General Manager, Alderwood Water & Wastewater District

• "A timely and important report for anyone looking to better understand the problem and opportunity landscape of water infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest. The authors take a comprehensive view of our water infrastructure challenges and, more importantly, offer a collection of strategies that capitalize on existing investments and which align with triple bottom line goals for greater economic, social, and environmental resilience."

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    Cathy Kellon

    Working Waters Director, Geos Institute

• “CSI has – once again – brought together regional thought leaders, each well versed in practicalities but also well positioned to offer aspirational yet realistic strategies for policy-makers with the goal of ensuring thriving communities today and into the future.”

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    Liz Kelly

    Vice President, CH2M

• “In its new report, the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure has captured the latest thinking, best practices, and future vision for a truly resilient, financially prudent, ecologically responsible, and comprehensively integrated water infrastructure system. If you still think past is prologue when it comes to water management: it’s time to think again. Many of our prior assumptions are now highly suspect and deserve a serious and critical reevaluation. This report is a thorough roadmap to guide that inquiry. In the long run, few areas of public policy are more important.  Water is life. Enough said.”

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    Steve Whitney

    Senior Program Director, Bullitt Institute