Water In John Levy's The Tricky

Americans have been using their outdated national infrastructure for too long. Local governments have been utilizing the old way of thinking about centralized water plants and aside from costing everyone money, it’s also having an enormous impact on our most vital resource, water. The old thinking is inefficient and ultimately unsustainable. Instead of transferring water through outdated and inefficient pipelines, city planners need to think outside of the box and either innovate or adopt alternative processes that have a proven track record to be efficient and sustainable.

Viki Elmer and Paula Kehoe describe in their article ‘The Tricky Business’ various water treatments and recycling options. They explain their benefits, using examples from successful projects. Reading through the article should make people realize the bigger picture, the power of mother nature. She possesses an incredible system. The system picks up water from various locations through the cycle of precipitation and desalinates it for free; then dumps it into rivers, mountains and places that majority

Bud Clark Commons Transition Center in Portland, Oregon offers the homeless a place to take a shower, do laundry and more. This was the first time that Graywater was reused inside a building. They made this possible by reusing the Graywater generated from those activities for the purpose of toilet flushing. In the book ‘Contemporary Urban Planning’, John Levy emphasizes on the social issues facing urban planning. He explains that urban planners were mainly concerned about physical design rather than social issues prior to 1960s (Levy p.107). By 1980s, planners observed the increasing number of the homeless (Levy p. 115). In order to reduce homelessness and improve our communities, it is necessary for planners to make some contribution and help the homeless by developing solutions like the hygiene center in