Watershed Restoration bills pass Senate committee
In the United States Senate, the Environment and Public Works Committee has passed a suite of restoration bills that will authorize needed funding for seven different areas around the country, one of which is Puget Sound. The bill creates investments in ongoing restoration projects. One of the interesting points raised in an article about these watershed restoration efforts is that they can have a clear economic return on investment: a study of efforts in the Great Lakes region determined that for every dollar spent on restoration there were two dollars' worth of economic benefits. See more information at Waterworld.com or read about the Great Lakes study at The Brookings Institution.
July 1, 2010
