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ICYMI — Colorado Communities Share Advice on Securing WaterSMART Funds
WaterNow Alliance hosted a Water Wednesday Webinar, “Unlocking WaterSMART Funding: Insights and Success Stories from Colorado Communities”, on May 29, 2024 focused on sharing feedback from Colorado communities who have successfully received funding from U.S. Bureau of...
EPA Releases a Draft National Water Reuse Action Plan — Elevates Onsite Reuse
EPA’s Assistant Administrator for Water, David Ross, made quite a splash last week at the Annual WateReuse Symposium in San Diego, rolling out EPA’s much anticipated draft National Water Reuse Action Plan. As a member of WateReuse’s Legislative and Regulatory Policy...
Bureau of Reclamation announces $4.1 million in Small Scale Water Efficiency Project Grants
This month, the Bureau of Reclamation announced 63 projects selected to receive a total of $4.1 million in funding through the WaterSMART Program’s FY2019 Small Scale Water Efficiency Project (SSWEP) grant. These grants will support water agencies to use water more...
Sustainability Spotlight: Forward-Thinking Water Management Solutions
A conversation with Mark Marlowe Director of Castle Rock Water for the Town of Castle Rock, CO Mark Marlowe has been the Director of Castle Rock Water for the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado since 2013. The Town of Castle Rock is located in the South Denver Metro...
WaterNow Members Make Their Voices Heard in the Development of California’s Water Resilience Portfolio
In April 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing the Natural Resources Agency and its partner agencies to prepare a “Water Resilience Portfolio” that will be California’s roadmap for building statewide water resilience and...
New Tools for Diverse Challenges
Guest Blog by Melissa Elliott, the Director of Strategic Communication Services at Raftelis and current President Elect of the American Water Works Association. Innovation is nothing new in the water utility world, but its pace and scale are accelerating in...
UPDATE: WaterSMART’s Funding Opportunities Now Accepting Applications
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) just announced two WaterSMART grant opportunities, the Water and Energy Efficiency Grants (WEEG) and the Drought Resiliency Grant Projects, now open for applications that could provide important benefits to your community. Water...
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WaterNow’s 2024 Emerging Leaders: Diverse, Dedicated, Driven Changemakers
This has been a big month for WaterNow's Emerging Leader Program! Together with our partners at the Water Center at Penn, we gathered in Philadelphia to extend our congratulations to the 2024 Emerging Leader Award recipients. From the Awards Ceremony to the Emerging...