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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Water and Sewage

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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North America is abundant in lakes and rivers yet, in many regions, water resources are in critical supply. Costs for operating, maintaining and expanding sewage treatment facilities continue to compete for our tax dollars, while water pollution and the rapid rate of water extraction is causing damage to fish stocks as well as other environmental degradation. Some communities are addressing these problems by seeking solutions that satisfy people’s needs while reducing or minimizing environmental and financial costs associated with supply and sewage treatment infrastructure expansion.

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Marc Roseland

Mark Roseland, Ph.D., MCIP, is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development (www.sfu.ca/cscd) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and is a professor in SFU’s Department of Geography. In 1990, as Research Director for the City of Vancouver’s Clouds of Change Task Force, he orchestrated one of the first comprehensive municipal responses to global atmospheric change and local air-quality problems. A former Editor of RAIN magazine, he was the North American Editor of the international journal Local Environment, published in association with ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, from its inception in 1995 until 2002, and continues to serve on its Editorial Advisory Board. His numerous publications include Eco-City Dimensions: Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet (New Society Publishers, 1997). He lectures internationally, advises communities and governments on sustainable development policy and planning, and participates actively in sustainable community development projects in Vancouver and elsewhere.