Water drainage and storage infrastructure

Clean and safe water is critical for human and ecosystem health. Several approaches sustain water infrastructure: better management; full-cost pricing; efficient water use; and watershed approaches to protection. Better management practices like asset management, environmental management systems, consolidation, and public-private partnerships can offer significant savings for water utilities. One key consideration in constructing, operating and maintaining infrastructure is ensuring that there are sufficient revenues in place to support the costs of doing business. One way to reduce the need for costly infrastructure is to better manage uses of water by metering, reusing water, using water-saving appliances, improving landscaping, and providing public education. Finally, in addressing infrastructure needs for the purposes of water supply and water quality, it is important to look more broadly at water resources in a coordinated way. Targeting resources towards highest priorities, permitting on a watershed basis and water quality trading can ensure that actions achieve the greatest benefit.

Case Studies

CH2M HILL delivers water to the West Bank West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory | June 1, 2004 In spite of civil disruptions and political unrest, CH2M HILL has helped the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) deliver water to the people of the West Bank. Learn more

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Fortifying a nation’s water revolution

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