I'm pleased to introduce the Massachusetts Smart, Clean, Green Water Infrastructure Network site. The site is a work-in-progress, intended to grow with your input. Please let us hear from you.

SmartCleanGreen.org hosts a multi-sector network dedicated to researching, designing, advancing, and funding a 21st century restorative approach to water system planning, design, and management. We strive to provide for infrastructure and services in a way that maximizes benefits for our environment, economy, and society. We are architects, engineers, academics, advocates, planners, regulators, legislators, contractors, consultants, clean tech manufacturers, and more. We hope that YOU are part of it, too.

Traditional large-scale systems for supplying drinking water, treating wastewater, and handling storm water for cities and towns -- conventional centralized "big pipe" systems and infrastructure -- use and waste too much energy and too much water. They are causing long-term ecosystem disruption such as "de-watering" even relatively water-rich regions such as the Northeast.

The genius of science and design in the 21st Century is the discovery of Smart, Clean, and Green ways to capture the value of resources. Smart because they unlock the complex designs of nature and use information and signaling to achieve efficiencies. Clean because they capture and use resources and methods that don't involve significant externalities in extraction or disposal. And, Green because they rely to a much higher degree on vegetation and in the process begin to restore the natural ecosystem and its wide and deep benefits.

We know that Massachusetts has a great innovative spirit and capable brainpower, and looks forward to setting the pace for innovations in the direction of truly sustainable water approaches.

Becky Smith
Water Organizer
Clean Water Action
Clean Water Fund