Click on Current Issue. This report documents the background, actions, results, economics, challenges and lessons from 18 projects that brought streams out from culverts and other underground channels to enhance public spaces, improve water quality, and expand stream channel capacity. The report emphasizes the importance of working with a team of planners, engineers, landscape architects, biologists, and citizens to plan and implement a project. Deteriorating stormwater infrastructure in the U.S. means it is often cheaper to open a channel than to put new pipe back in. This World Bank study stresses participatory regulation where community representatives share in negotiations with government regulators and factory managers.
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