Infrastructure
Recycling Sewage Water Into Tap Water
A $600-million program to convert recycled sewage for taps is nearing approval in Southern California.
Purifying Water With Sunlight
World Health Organization reports that water can be purified using sunlight and plastic bottles reducing deaths from unsafe drinking water in developing countries.
Higher Sewage Bills For Sprawl
The city's sanitation district is being asked to use its fees to discourage urban sprawl.
World's Best Tap Water
Contest for the city with the best public tap water draws international attention to drinking water quality.
California's Water Shortage
A water shortage seems likely to compound the state's crippling electricity shortage.
High Noon At The Ogallala Aquifer
An audacious plan to suck out groundwater from under rural Texas and sell it to large distant cities has ignited water wars in the state.
Babbitt Signs Historic 7-state Water Accord
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt signs a sweeping seven-state water accord that assures water for Southern California for 15 years.
Electric Utility Asset Sale Raises Growth Issues
A PG&E proposal to auction its hydroelectric assets could bring about a new land rush in the Sierra Nevada.
Planning For Future Water For California
California has only 15 more years to receive Colorado River water surplus. Where to get water then is the issue.
Volume-based Garbage Collection Tested
The Community of Temple Terrace is conducting a pilot program where residents are billed for the trash they generate.
How Will California Get More Water?
There are two answers to California's water supply problem. You won't like either of them.
Waste Waterworld
The "Ewww!" factor and the $600 million Groundwater Replenishment System project to turn sewage into drinking water.
River Proposal Calls For Less Water For Farmland
Department of the Interior released a plan which addresses the use of water from the Trinity River, a small river in northern California that supplies as much as a seventh of the Central Valley Project's water.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
EMC Planning Group, Inc.
Planetizen
Planetizen
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
