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Stormwater Management • LEED for Neighborhood Development, htto:/lwww.usgbc,orgiDisplayPage. aspx7CMSPageID-148. • Low-impact development (UP) (U.S. EPA) , http://www,eo,govinpsJlid/. • Stormwater strategies (Natural Resources Defense Council, 1999), http://www.nrdc. org/water/poll utioo/storm/sto i ox. asp . • Urban Stormwater Management in the United States (National Research Council, 2008), http://www.oap.edu/catalog.phorecord id 12465. Heat Island Effect • Alternative paving materials, www,cleanaircQunts,org/ResQurces%20PackagelA%20 Book/Payinglother%20oavjngs/coolpave,htm. • Cool Colors Project (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), www.coolcolors,lbl.gov/, • Heat island ef fect (U.S. EPA), www.eDa.gov/heatisland. Sustainable Sites 35
Americans' use of the limited public water supply continues to increase as development expands. Municipally provided potable water is delivered to users for domestic, commercial, industrial, and other purposes and is the primary source of water for most build ings, but high demand is straining limited supplies. The resulting wastewater then overwhelms treatment facilities, and the untreated overflow can contaminat~ rivers, lakes, and sources of potable water with bacteria, nitrogen, toxic metals, and other contaminants. Add itional municipal supply and treatment facilities must then be built, at public cost. lEED encourages and recognizes efficiency measures that significantly reduce the amount of potable water • use"d by buildings while still meeting the needs of the systems and the occupants. These measures involve all the water usage associated with buildings: Indoor water for restroomsj Outdoor water for landscaping; and Process water for industrial purposes and buiJding systems. 37
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