Baltimore's Experience May Yield Lessons for Senate as It Debates Integrated Planning Bill

Center for Progressive Reform 2017-04-29

Summary:

The City of Baltimore is wrapping up an $800 million upgrade of its largest sewage treatment plant. At the same time, the city is starting a $160 million project to retrofit a drinking water reservoir; is in the midst of a $400 million project to realign a major section of its sewer system; and is spending several million on projects throughout the city to manage polluted runoff from its streets and other paved surfaces. Managing our need for water is both expensive and complicated, and the challenges of worsening drought and flooding that climate change is forecasted to create for American cities in coming decades have propelled the emergence of "integrated water management" - the coordinated management of societal water needs in an equitable and sustainable way. These issues are the focus of a bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last month that would directly address some of the challenges faced by cities like Baltimore.

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Authors:

Evan Isaacson

Date tagged:

04/29/2017, 08:25

Date published:

04/13/2017, 12:33