The 2014 National Climate Assessment Report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program provides an interactive chapter on the trend toward increasing heavy downpours.

This report analyzes and quantifies the potential flood loss avoidance impacts of distributed stormwater control using Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development.

This report, Banking on Green: How Green Infrastructure Saves Municipalities Money and Provides Economic Benefits Community-wide, helps quantify and support the economic case for Green Infrastructure.

The Environmental Finance Center worked with several municipalities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to recommend a sustainable financing approach to help meet their stormwater management goals. In one municipality, Warwick Township, it was found that the cost to replace their gray infrastructure storm sewer pipe system would be over $1.9 million in 30 years. However, the cost to maintain and renovate all municipally owned BMPs over 20 years through an established asset management program would be just over $260,000. That’s a savings of almost $1.6 million.

Water Words That Work LLC has reviewed surveys, focus group reports, “how to” guides,studies, and reports to shed light on how the public and businesses react to the introduction of a
stormwater utility fee. This review is used to define steps communities can take to set up a stormwater utility. 

Why should local leaders promote opportunities for outdoor recreation? Besides improving quality of life for residents and encouraging active, healthy lifestyles, it can mean significant funds for local businesses and communities.

Use these quick facts and useful conclusions to support your case for the value of "green infrastructure" in its classic sense, open parklands and build an argument for the link between public investment in spaces for recreation and innovative onsite stormwater management. 

The use of green infrastructure is an important strategy for HUD's Office of Economic Resilience (OER) and its Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) grantees, especially as communities plan for the concurrent and future impacts of climate change and natural disasters.The incorporation of green infrastructure can be a cost-effective solution to help communities save taxpayer money on public infrastructure capital investment and maintenance costs, improve stormwater management and water quality, reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs), and limit the impacts of flooding on h