Renewing Investment in our Water System

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Abstract: Population growth, urbanization, potential climate change, environmental degradation, aging infrastructure and ever-increasing operation and maintenance costs have led to a need for a renewed investment in the United States' water system. Federal and state grants, subsidies and tax exemptions for municipal bonds helped produce our current, highly centralized infrastructure. These government funds are currently limited, however, and local utilities are often too cash-strapped to meet existing operations and maintenance obligations let alone fund innovative water projects.
A 2016 report issued by Stanford’s Water in the West program and the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center, Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt), identifies and explores innovative funding and governance mechanisms that can be used to support the integration of new distributed water infrastructure, practices and technologies into the current system.

Type of resource	text
Date created	March 20, 2016

Author	Ajami, Newsha K.
Author	Thompson, Barton H.
Author	Quesnel, Kim
Sponsor	Stanford University. Woods Institute for the Environment.

Subject	Water and energy
Subject	Water allocation and management
Genre	Article

Related Publication	“Tapping into Alternative Ways to Fund Innovative and Multi-Purpose Water Projects: A Financing Framework from the Electricity Sector,” a 2016 report issued by Stanford’s Water in the West program and the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center, Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt).
Related item	Title Article on the Water in the West publications website
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Preferred Citation: Ajami, Newsha, Thompson, Barton H. and Quesnel, Kim. (2016). Renewing Investment in our Water System. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/zy070pq5088

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