Policy statement 576 - Civil infrastructure and the water-energy-food nexus

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Financing and cost sharing in water resources infrastructure programs</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps304---qualifications-based-selection-of-professional-engineers">PS304 - Qualifications-based selection of professional engineers</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps305---superfund-reauthorization">PS305 - Superfund reauthorization</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps313---infrastructure-research-and-innovations">PS313 - Infrastructure research and innovations</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps318---professional-liability-and-tort-reform">PS318 - Professional liability and tort reform</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps319---national-institute-of-standards-and-technology">PS319 - National Institute of Standards and Technology</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps325---unrelated-business-income-tax">PS325 - Unrelated business income tax</a> </li> <li> <a 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construction funding</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps482---harmful-algal-blooms-and-hypoxia-program">PS482 - Harmful algal blooms and hypoxia program</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps484---electricity-generation-and-transmission-infrastructure">PS484 - Electricity generation and transmission infrastructure</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps485---revitalization-of-brownfields">PS485 - Revitalization of brownfields</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps488---greenhouse-gases">PS488 - Greenhouse gases</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps489---energy-policy">PS489 - Energy policy</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps491---high-level-nuclear-waste-management">PS491 - High-level nuclear waste management</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps492---use-of-electronic-signatures-and-seals">PS492 - Use of electronic signatures and seals</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps493---infrastructure-resilience-research">PS493 - Infrastructure resilience research</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps494---public-transportation">PS494 - Public transportation</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps495---operations-and-management-of-transportation-systems">PS495 - Operations and management of transportation systems</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps496---innovative-financing-for-transportation-projects">PS496 - Innovative financing for transportation projects</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps497---surface-transportation-research-funding">PS497 - Surface transportation research funding</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps498---coastal-wetlands">PS498 - Coastal wetlands</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps499---emergency-preparedness-and-response">PS499 - Emergency preparedness and response</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps500---resilient-infrastructure-initiatives">PS500 - Resilient infrastructure initiatives</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps502---professional-ethics-and-conflict-of-interest">PS502 - Professional ethics and conflict of interest</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps503---parks-and-recreation-infrastructure">PS503 - Parks and recreation infrastructure</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps504---rehabilitation-of-historic-bridges">PS504 - Rehabilitation of historic bridges</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps506---building-engineering-capacity-in-developing-countries">PS506 - Building engineering capacity in developing countries</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps507---restoring-and-maintaining-beaches">PS507 - Restoring and maintaining beaches</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps508---sole-source-workers-compensation-statute">PS508 - Sole source workers compensation statute</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps509---provision-of-engineering-services-across-state-and-international-boundaries">PS509 - Provision of engineering services across state and international boundaries</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps510---combating-bribery-fraud-and-corruption">PS510 - Combating bribery, fraud, and corruption</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps511---levee-safety">PS511 - Levee safety </a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps512---space-infrastructure">PS512 - Space infrastructure</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps516---municipal-solid-waste-management">PS516 - Municipal solid waste management</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps517---united-nations-sustainable-development-goals">PS517 - United Nations' sustainable development goals</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps518---unified-definitions-for-critical-infrastructure-resilience">PS518 - Unified definitions for critical infrastructure resilience</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps519---peer-review-of-water-resources-projects">PS519 - Peer review of water resources projects</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps521---rail-infrastructure-investment">PS521 - Rail infrastructure investment</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps522---regional-sediment-management">PS522 - Regional sediment management</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps524---advanced-credentialing-within-the-civil-engineering-profession">PS524 - Advanced credentialing within the civil engineering profession</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps525---model-building-codes">PS525 - Model building codes</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps526---public-private-partnerships">PS526 - Public Private Partnerships</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps527---recycling-of-electronic-wastes">PS527 - Recycling of electronic wastes</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps528---high-performance-buildings">PS528 - High-performance buildings</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps530---windstorm-impact-mitigation">PS530 - Windstorm impact mitigation</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps532---national-infrastructure-bank">PS532 - National Infrastructure Bank</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps533---offshore-facilities-development">PS533 - Offshore facilities development</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps535---defining-the-civil-engineering-team">PS535 - Defining the civil engineering team</a> </li> <li> <a href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps536---emergency-responder-legislation">PS536 - Emergency responder legislation</a> </li> <li> <a 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href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps576---civil-infrastructure-and-the-water-energy-food-nexus">PS576 - Civil infrastructure and the water-energy-food nexus</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="breadcrumbs-list-item"> <a class="breadcrumbs-list-item-link " href="/advocacy/policy-statements/ps576---civil-infrastructure-and-the-water-energy-food-nexus"> PS576 - Civil infrastructure and the water-energy-food nexus </a> </li> </ul> </nav>  </div> </div>  <div class="detail-layout"> <div class="detail-content"> <div class="content-wrapper"> <div class="hero-content"> </div> <article class="main-content">  <section class="rich-text wysiwyg-content"> <div class="rich-text-inner"> <p>Approved by the Energy, Environment, and Water Policy Committee on April 29, 2024<br /> Approved by the Public Policy Committee on June 5, 2024<br /> Adopted by the Board of Direction on July 18, 2024</p> <h3>Policy</h3> <p>The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) supports advances in the Water, Energy, and Food (WEF) sectors, known as the Water-Energy-Food Nexus or Food-Energy-Water Nexus by:</p> <ul> <li>Requiring private and public entities evaluate the systemic tradeoffs and synergies, sustainability, and resilience of interconnected networked services supported by civil infrastructure.</li> <li>Updating infrastructure design codes, standards, and permitting to include WEF supply chain sustainability and/or resilience.</li> <li>Modernizing life-cycle analysis, engineering workflows, and construction methods and techniques.</li> <li>Utilizing the recognized science and technology best practices.</li> <li>Updating and increasing public outreach and policy development and analysis to include WEF.</li> <li>Requiring continuing education regarding WEF for engineers and other professionals.</li> </ul> <h3>Issue</h3> <p>According to the United Nations water, food and energy form a nexus at the heart of sustainable development. Demand for all three is increasing rapidly. To withstand current and future pressures, governments (and other stakeholders) must ensure integrated and sustainable management of water, food, and energy to balance the needs of people, nature, and the economy.</p> <p>Sustainability and resilience of WEF sectors in an uncertain, disruptive, and evolving environment are significantly dependent on natural and built infrastructure systems. Natural and built infrastructure systems play a critical role in WEF sectors, where addressing a problem in one sector can have positive or negative unintended consequences in another sector via direct and indirect connections. Policy and action in one government agency can affect agencies and sectors outside the original jurisdiction, including in how we design, implement, operate, maintain, retrofit, and decommission infrastructure. </p> <h3>Rationale</h3> <p>The civil engineering profession plays a leading role in planning, designing, implementing, operating, maintaining, retrofitting, and decommissioning infrastructure that support the functions and performance of interconnected WEF sectors. Each resource influences the others, creating opportunities for collaboration and challenges that require integrated solutions. Scenarios where WEF interconnectedness should be considered include, but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>Increasing populations and changing lifestyles drive up demand for all three resources, leading to potential conflicts over allocation and sustainability.</li> <li>Lifelines, including roads, railways, waterways, and pipelines are critical for the efficient and equitable distribution of food, energy, and water on local, regional, and national scales. </li> <li>Water use is directly related to energy use in cities, including energy used by water infrastructure for conveying, treating, and distributing water and collecting, treating, and disposing treated water and wastewater.  </li> <li>Many of the nations’ reservoirs are multi-purpose systems that are operated to balance tradeoffs that arise from irrigated agriculture, municipal and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, recreational activities, and water for downstream aquatic ecosystems. </li> <li>Navigation dam removal or dam failure may constrain grain exports if alternative distribution systems are not available or affordable, suppressing domestic grain prices and increasing international grain prices. </li> <li>When levels of groundwater used for irrigated agriculture and municipal and industrial water supplies, particularly during drought periods, are drawn down, energy requirements for pumping increase. </li> <li>Irrigation with recycled wastewater and recovery of nutrients during wastewater treatment could support additional crop cultivation and diversify portfolios for water resources, but with risks of increased energy needs and environmental impacts.</li> <li>Power line maintenance failures can trigger forest fires, which damage water quality, denude the land and increase the potential for erosion and flooding.</li> <li>Aging infrastructure for water, energy, and sanitation can lead to inefficiencies, losses, and pollution, further straining the nexus.</li> <li>Developing smart resilient infrastructure for water, energy, and waste management can create efficiencies and improve overall sustainability.</li> <li>Critical supply chains and community lifelines that are urgently necessary during emergencies, including for the support of dependent community lifeline services.</li> </ul> <p>Understanding the Water-Energy-Food Nexus is crucial for engineers to develop holistic solutions that ensure sustainable resource management, food security, and environmental protection for present and future generations. Engagement with relevant WEF stakeholders and WEF data are essential for formulation of integrated public policies and for coordinating design, implementation, operation, maintenance, retrofitting, and decommissioning of interconnected civil infrastructure systems that advance sustainability and resilience of services provided by the WEF sectors necessary for the prosperity of society.</p> <p>This policy has worldwide application<br /> ASCE Policy Statement 576 <br /> First Approved in 2024</p> </div> </section>  <div class="tags"> <div class="tags-inner"> <div class="tags-content"> <ul> <li><a href="/search?#sort=relevancy&f:topicsflat=[Infrastructure+Policy+%26+Planning]">Infrastructure Policy & Planning</a></li> <li><a href="/search?#sort=relevancy&f:topicsflat=[Infrastructure+Assessment]">Infrastructure Assessment</a></li> <li><a href="/search?#sort=relevancy&f:topicsflat=[Water+%26+Water+Resources]">Water & Water Resources</a></li> <li><a href="/search?#sort=relevancy&f:topicsflat=[Energy+Engineering]">Energy Engineering</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div>  <aside class="social-share"> <div class="social-share-title">Share</div> <ul class="social-share-services"> <li><a data-service="facebook" href="#"><span class="sr-text">Share on Facebook</span></a></li> <li><a data-service="twitter" href="#"><span class="sr-text">Share on Twitter</span></a></li> <li><a data-service="linkedin" href="#"><span class="sr-text">Share on LinkedIn</span></a></li> </ul> </aside>  </article> </div> <aside class="sidebar-content">   <aside class="related-items"> <div class="eyebrow -large -lowercase">Related items </div> <ul class="related-items-list"> <li class="related-items-item"> <a href="/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/article/2024/11/27/storms-rising-frequency-intensity-challenge-flood-insurance-program" class="related-items-link"> <div class="related-items-link-text">Storms’ rising frequency, intensity challenge flood insurance program</div> <div class="related-items-link-img"> <img src="/-/media/asce-images-and-files/publications-and-news/source/images/2024/11-november/storms-rising-frequency-intensity-challenge-flood-insurance-program/pb-insurance-texas_army_national_guard_hurricane_harvey_response-featured.jpg?cx=0&cy=0&cw=80&ch=56&hash=D2498175E3F61F31377572354B8F31BE" alt="people wearing life vests push a boat with a motor up a hill on a flooded highway"> </div> </a> </li> <li class="related-items-item"> <a href="/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/article/2024/11/26/what-will-go-into-inventing-our-future-cities-author-offers-thoughts" class="related-items-link"> <div class="related-items-link-text">What will go into inventing our future cities? 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