Water Infrastructure
Water is essential for all life. In addition to the water we drink, we use water to grow our food, to make concrete and steel, and to create nearly everything else we produce, consume, buy, and sell. But today we face water scarcity and pollution that threatens our economic growth and our health. All too often, low-income communities and people of color bear the brunt of our water problems.
We desperately need to clean, protect, and conserve America’s water. We can create jobs in the process—jobs that pay well and form pathways to the middle class—all while making our communities, economy, and planet healthier. We can achieve these goals by investing in water infrastructure.
How We’re Helping
- Advancing the use of green infrastructure
- Documenting the potential to create 1.9 million high road jobs through the stormwater sector
- Supporting federal policy that ensures access to clean water
- Bringing together the nation’s leading water experts to create solutions
- Highlighting innovative local models of green infrastructure
Tools
- SEEING GREEN: Green Infrastructure Maintenance Training and Workforce Development Opportunities in Northeast Ohio
- Staying Green and Growing Green Jobs: Green Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance as Career Pathway Stepping Stones
- Staying Green: Strategies to Improve Operations and Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- NEW TOOL: Job Projection and Tracking Guide
- Clean Water For All: Protecting Life’s Resource
- The New Wave: Greening our Water Infrastructure – A Workshop Guide
- Using A Jobs Frame to Promote the Use of Green Infrastructure PowerPoint