Grey infrastructure
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Natural capital - infrastructure - ecosystem services - water - water management.
In the context of water management, grey infrastructure means human-engineered infrastructure for water resources, such as water and wastewater treatment plants, pipelines, and dams.
Grey infrastructure typically refers to components of a centralised approach to water management, and is contrasted with blue infrastructure.
(Source - Working with nature - Lloyds Banking Group with input from the RSPB.)
See also
- Blue infrastructure
- Ecosystem
- Ecosystem services
- Environmental concerns
- Green infrastructure
- Infrastructure
- Natural capital
- Nature-based solutions (NbS)
- Nature loss
- Reserves
- Social concerns
- Sustainable infrastructure
- Sustainability
- World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN)