Green buildings offer ‘golden’ savings opportunity for water and wastewater plants

Green buildings offer ‘golden’ savings opportunity for water and wastewater plants
The main process building at the new LaSalle, Ill., wastewater treatment plant features a "green" roof, where trays containing special plantings are located. The green roof provides additional insulation in the winter, heat dissipation in the summer, and reduced stormwater runoff. It was an important aspect of the LEED certification of the building. (Photos courtesy of Crawford, Murphy & Tilly)

This summer we saw perhaps the most dramatic evidence yet of climate change. Reports as recent as mid-September indicate Arctic Sea ice has melted to an unprecedented size of 1.32 million square miles. That’s the lowest seasonal minimum extent measured via satellite since 1979, and...

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