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The Plan - Focusing on the five key dimensions of the city’s environment — land, air, water, energy, and transportation — we have developed a plan that can become a model for cities in the 21st century

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Our water system was an engineering marvel when it was created in the early 19th century. But the same technology that once was ahead of its time is now past its prime. We must also confront the legacy of our industrial past, which treated New York’s waterways as a delivery system, rather than as a source of recreation or a significant ecological habitat. We have two primary water challenges – to ensure the water we drink is pure and reliable, and that the waterways surrounding our city are clean and available for use by New Yorkers. In order to meet these two challenges, we must aggressively invest in critical back-up systems to our water network and embrace a range of practices to improve water quality.

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Read the PlaNYC report on Water Quality (in PDF)	Read the PlaNYC report on Water Network (in PDF)	Read Progress Report 2008 on Water Quality (in PDF)
Read Progress Report 2008 on Water Network (in PDF)