1. Green Infrastructure, Public Health & Finance
March 8, 2012
Candace Chandra

2. What is Green Infrastructure?
Green infrastructure is strategically planned and managed networks of natural lands, working landscapes and other open spaces that conserve ecosystem values and functions and provide associated benefits to human populations.

3. How Does Green Infrastructure Benefit the Environment?
Reduced and Delayed Stormwater Runoff Volumes
Enhanced Groundwater Recharge
Stormwater Pollutant Reductions
Reduced Sewer Overflow Events
Increased Carbon Sequestration
Urban Heat Island Mitigation and Reduced Energy Demands 

4. What is Missing? Introductory video

5. How Does Green Infrastructure Benefit Public Health?
Improved Air and Water Quality
Additional Wildlife Habitat and Recreational Space
Redirection of toxins
Management of Infectious Species
Creation of Green Spaces for Food and Social Well-Being (nature deficit disorder-Richard Louv)

6. What Does Green Infrastructure Look Like?
Green infrastructure encompasses a wide
variety of natural and restored native
ecosystems and landscape features that make
up a system of “hubs” and “links.”

7. Hubs & Links Hubs Links Reserves Manage native landscapes
Working lands-brownfields
Regional parks and preserves
Lakes, aquifers, oceans
Urban areas
Landscape linkages
Conservation corridors
Greenways and waterways
Greenbelts
Ecobelts
Green roofs

8. The 10 Green Sectors that are attracting investments
Energy Efficiency Technologies
Recycling technologies
Green Building Materials
Water Resources Conservation 
Natural Resource Banking
Geothermal, Solar, Wind, Waste to Energy
Cleantech Marketing Companies and Websites
Watershed Investment Funds
Environmental Services
Utilities

9. Impact of risks related to the water-food-energy nexus (non exhaustive)
Impacts
Direct Impacts
Indirect Impacts
Impact on governments
- Stagnation in economic development
- Political Unrest
- Cost of emergency food relief
- Significantly reduced agricultural yields
- Threats to energy security
- Increased social cost linked to employment and income loss as agriculture is negatively effected
- National security risks/ conflict over natural resources
Impact on society/populations
- Increased levels of hunger and poverty
- Increased environmental degradation
- Severe food and water shortages
- Social unrest
- Food price spikes
- Migration pressures
- Irreparably damaged water sources
- Loss of livelihoods
Impact on business
- Export constraints
- Increased resource prices
- Commodity price volatility
- Lost investment opportunities

10. Infrastructure Stakeholders Involved in Green Infrastructure
Infrastructure Protection Business Continuity & Resilience
Governance Innovation and Quality
Planning Community
Information Sharing Technology Shareholder Value
Government Continuity & Resilience
Safety Protection & Response
Federal
Private Sector
State & Local

11. Waste to Energy

12. How are we different? We see wastewater as a resource than a liability
Focus on re-use of water at many different levels and not just clean drinking water

13. Utility Enabled Financing and Repayment Model
Customer wants to save money on utility bill
$$$$$
Utility determines best upgrade package that can be financed out of projected savings
Utility oversees efficiency upgrades at no upfront cost to customer
As part of utility service, the meter is assigned a fixed monthly charge to pay off the upgrade

14. Performance Metrics, not “maybes” can be written into a PPP contract as guarantees
Customer Service
Customer satisfaction surveys
Incoming calls answered rates
Emergency response rate
Billing accuracy, meter reading
Water Quality
Meet/exceed all water quality standards
Meet specific criteria for constituents in water
Reduce taste and odour issues
Volume and type of tests
Source: Veolia Water
Operations
SOPs, technical and process plans
Reliability centered maintainence
Main breaks
Hydrant repair
Capital Projects
Execution of specified capital asset replacement and projects
Investments stay local
Community involvement
Specific programs and citizen advisory council

15. How to Invest in Water: “The Great Untold Story”
A crisis and an opportunity:
Must see video!
– Nov 2011

16. The Challenge for Public Health
Build public infrastructure with health at forefront
RETHINK the physical infrastructure (reference Rob Dunn’s book-UNC Chapel Hill)
Bring data to finance (both public and private)
Integrate with Natural Resource movement (see UNEP Finance Initiative)

17. Videos
Practical application video - Smart Green Infrastructure: How To Grow Sustainable Cities

18. Contact Info
AQEX LLC 2200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 4th Floor East Washington, DC Tel: