American Water has released a new white paper titled, The “One Water” Approach. The paper discusses the need to begin looking at water, in all its forms, from potable to stormwater and wastewater – as one commodity. Until we do, the paper contends, we will continue to waste far too much. I’ll talk more about that idea, and the paper’s conclusions, in another blog. But first, I’d like to share some amazing numbers and statistics I pulled from the paper:Without renewal or replacement, water pipes in the U.S. that are classified as poor, very poor or life-elapsed will increase from 10
