Clean-water plants and clean-water professionals contribute strongly to environmental quality. But it’s not often they are front and center in a community’s effort to market itself, promote sustainability and encourage economic growth.The Tacoma (Wash.) Environmental Services Department, which encompasses wastewater, surface water and solid waste management, is part of just such an effort. A partnership involving the city’s utilities, the Port of Tacoma, the University of Washington Tacoma and its Center for Urban Waters, Washington State University, and the Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County are working together to establish Tacoma as a laboratory for sustainability and environmental research, and
Tacoma - Pulling It All Together
Tacoma Public Utilities and its water-related operations are part of an effort to promote sustainability and environmental quality as a catalyst for economic growth.
Mar 17, 2014
| by Ted J. Rulseh |
