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To find out the infrastructure needs and job creation potential in your state visit:

American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Report Card

Water Is Your Business

 

WEF’s Water Is Life, and Infrastructure Makes It Happen™ is an education and outreach program dedicated to helping communities envision, build, maintain and improve life-sustaining water and wastewater systems.

Value of Water Survey, Xylem

Liquid Assets is a public media and outreach initiative that seeks to inform the nation about the critical role that our water infrastructure plays in protecting public health and promoting economic prosperity. Combining a 90-minute documentary with a community toolkit for facilitating local involvement, Liquid Assets explores the history, engineering, and political and economic challenges of our water infrastructure, and engages communities in local discussion about public water and wastewater issues.

2009 Infrastructure Report Card, American Society of Civil Engineers

Failure to Act, The Economic Impact of Current Investment Trends in Water and Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure (2011), American Society of Civil Engineers

Local Government Investment in Municipal Water and Sewer Infrastructure, Adding Value to the National Economy(2008), U.S. Conference of Mayors Report

Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Investment,October 12, 2010, U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. EPA Importance of Water Study

U.S. EPA Importance of Water to the United States Economy

U.S. EPA Clean Watershed Needs Surveys

U.S. EPA Drinking Water Needs Surveys

Buried No Longer, Confronting America’s Water Infrastructure Challenge, American Water Works Association

Growing Blue, a website created to tell the story of how water is as essential to our economic and social growth as it is to ensuring healthy ecosystems and our natural environment.

Water Works: Rebuilding Infrastructure & Creating Jobs, Green for All

The Global Competiveness Report 2011-2012, World Economic Forum

Trends in Local Government Expenditures on Public Water and Wastewater Services and Infrastructure: Past, Present and Future, Richard Anderson, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Senior Adviser, Mayors Water Council (February 2010)