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Progress – but too little – on toxic lead water pipes

December 22, 2020 Sri Vedachalam Leave a comment

Timothy Male and Sridhar Vedachalam Using toxic lead to make water pipes seemed like a good idea for the 1,000+…

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Posted in: Water Filed under: EPA, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, Lead Service Line Replacement, water

Are States Making Use of the SRF Program for Lead Pipe Replacement?

Sri Vedachalam Leave a comment

Katy Hansen, Senior Advisor for Water A major federal program – the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund – has provided…

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Posted in: Water Filed under: financing, Lead Service Line Replacement, SRF

Are SRF allocations across communities equitable?

December 1, 2020 Sri Vedachalam 1 Comment

Katy Hansen, Senior Advisor for Water Economic segregation between towns and cities in the United States is on the rise:…

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Posted in: Water Filed under: financing, SRF, water infrastructure

New toolkit for funding green stormwater infrastructure in the Great Lakes region

Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

If you look at your water bill, you will may see a stormwater charge or drainage fee that helps pay…

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Posted in: Markets, Water Filed under: Environmental Impact Bond, Finance, Pay for Success, Public private partnerships, Stormwater

New report: How to help conservation data technology spread

April 23, 2020 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

Before I’d ever heard of “data technology,” I was making loans to commercial fishermen in California where the fishing industry…

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Posted in: Markets, Uncategorized, Water, Wildfire, Wildlife Filed under: #datatech

Mobilizing Community Support and Political Leadership for Systemic Governance Changes: An Interview with Susana De Anda

January 13, 2020 Sri Vedachalam Leave a comment

Susana De Anda, along with colleague Laurel Firestone, formed the Community Water Center in 2006, in response to the landscape…

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Posted in: Water Filed under: environmental justice

Conservation Technology: Opportunities for Growth in 2020

January 2, 2020 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

I’m not a tech junkie, but in 2019 my eyes were opened to the incredibly diverse, impressive and rapidly-advancing ways…

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Posted in: Markets, Water, Wildlife Filed under: #datatech, Conservation

Speeding Up Drinking Water Protection: A Conversation with Katherine Baer

November 22, 2019 Sri Vedachalam Leave a comment

Thanks in large part to the Clean Water Act of 1972, America’s surface waters, especially those near urban areas, have…

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Posted in: Water Filed under: public health, water

Sandboxing Nature: Bringing regulatory flexibility to conservation innovation

October 8, 2019 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

Today we’re releasing a new paper, Sandboxing Nature, in which we suggest taking an approach called a “regulatory sandbox”—a flexible…

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Posted in: Markets, Water, Wildlife Filed under: Conservation, Restoration, sandbox

Atlanta’s cutting-edge Environmental Impact Bond

March 21, 2019 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

Things just got very exciting in the geeky world of environmental impact bonds. The City of Atlanta Department of Watershed…

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Posted in: Markets, Water Filed under: Atlanta, Environmental Impact Bond, Finance, Green infrastructure

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