Green Cities / Infrastructure
No longer an environmental amenity, green infrastructure is now commonly perceived as an essential requirement for the sustainability of our industrial and urban locales. Significant evidence suggests that application of green infrastructure in our urban municipal centers may provide solutions to combined sewer overflows, stormwater discharges and other wet weather water quality problems. The Alliance will develop and disseminate information that advances holistic approaches to water quality and quantity challenges through green infrastructure.
Green Infrastructure Task Force
The Alliance’s Green Infrastructure Task Force (GITF), led by Howard Neukrug, the director of watersheds for the Philadelphia Water Department, is a network of green infrastructure practitioners, urban water, wastewater and/or stormwater utilities, other city agencies and urban sustainability offices currently implementing green infrastructure.
Members of the GITF hale from different geographical regions and experience vastly different water quality and water supply challenges. The Alliance has developed an interactive website where Task Force member can communicate their ideas with one another and provide a means for communities to adapt ideas from other regions to their own situations.