He said that if that were so, everything he has done, including programs to protect harbor herons, create greenbelts and restore waterways, was a job-hunting tool.

Its reestablishment is among the suggestions to restore Ukrainian waterways, as an alternative to the controversial Bystroye Canal project.

They would also require formulating plans to restore waterways that do not meet state and federal clean-water standards.

It is clear, first of all, that we can do a great deal to restore damaged waterways by using common sense and good engineering.

Lisa Force, program director for Living Rivers, a Western nonprofit group that works to restore waterways, said recent low-rainfall years in the Southwest may now be the norm, not aberrations, and states need to adapt.

The $15 million fund would buy land and restore environmentally important areas and waterways.

Officials want to provide the proposed Environmental Legacy Fund with $15 million to buy land and restore environmentally sensitive areas and waterways.

In addition to capitalistic economic profitability, there is a nature-based profitability for oyster restoration because they restore polluted waterways hindered by urbanization and other economic ecology issues.

H.R. 6709 also would invest upwards of $250 billion in an environmental restoration fund to restore and preserve pristine waterways and national parks.

In response, IWA advocated a National Waterway Conservancy to look after all the waterways and pointed out that it is cheaper to restore and use waterways than to eliminate them.