Water

Water Efficiency: The Next Generation

AUTHOR: Chaplin, Scott
DOCUMENT ID: W98-07
YEAR: 1998
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This paper describes methods by which households can save water. These methods directly address issues of growth, sustainability, carrying capacity, and quality of life.

Valuing Decentralized Wastewater Technologies: A Catalog of Benefits, Costs, and Economic Analysis Techniques

AUTHORS:
Magliaro, Jeremy
Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: W04-21
YEAR: 2004
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This report catalogs the economic advantages and disadvantages of decentralized wastewater systems relative to larger scale solutions in order to inform wastewater facility planning and assist communities in making choices regarding wastewater.

Case Studies of Economic Analysis and Community Decision Making for Decentralized Wastewater Systems

AUTHORS:
Pinkham, Richard
Kinsley, Michael
Magliaro, Jeremy
DOCUMENT ID: W04-20
YEAR: 2004
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This report examines how communities consider and value the benefits and costs of different scale wastewater facility options in monetary or other terms, and examines the driving issues, motivations, thought processes, and decision-making methods of stakeholders relative to choices of wastewater system scale.

North Central Arizona Water Demand Study

AUTHOR: Pinkham, Richard
DOCUMENT ID: W02-18
YEAR: 2002
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This study describes the situation of water resource stakeholders in the Coconino Plateau and how to provide sufficient water for current and future needs. The study reviews water use strategies for residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial purposes.

Daylighting: New Life for Buried Streams

AUTHOR: Pinkham, Richard
DOCUMENT ID: W00-32
YEAR: 2000
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This report reviews the benefits, challenges, and costs of exposing formerly culverted or buried streams. This process is refered to as "daylighting". The report includes case studies of several dozen daylighting projects.

Reevaluating Stormwater: The Nine Mile Run Model for Restorative Development

AUTHOR: Pinkham, Richard
DOCUMENT ID: W99-22
YEAR: 1999
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This report shows how low-cost, multi-benefit stormwater management measures, incorporated into retrofit programs and redevelopment projects, can reduce sewer overflows, restore urban watersheds, and revitalize communities.

Technical Appendix to Reevaluating Stormwater

AUTHOR: Pinkham, Richard
DOCUMENT ID: W99-22a
YEAR: 1999
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This technical appendix was written in conjunction with the report, "Reevaluating Stormwater," from the Pittsburgh Charrette. The appendix includes information about the charrette process as well as supporting information, documentation, and data that was used in the Pittsburgh Charrette.

21st Century Water Systems: Scenarios, Visions, and Drivers

AUTHOR: Pinkham, Richard
DOCUMENT ID: W99-21
YEAR: 1999
DOCUMENT TYPE: Conference Proceedings

Prepared as the opening presentation for an EPA workshop, "Sustainable Urban Water Infrastructure: A Vision of the Future," this paper outlines wide ranging developments that will affect the form, function, efficacy, and ownership of water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure in the future.

Water 2010: Four Scenarios for 21st Century Water Systems

AUTHORS:
Chaplin, Scott
Pinkham, Richard
DOCUMENT ID: W96-04
YEAR: 1996
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This report examines the challenges and uncertainties facing municipal water systems in 1996 and presents hypothetical scenarios forecasting the state of water in 2010.

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