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Announcing the 2023 Emerging Leader Award Winners!
WaterNow Alliance is excited to announce the winners of our third annual Emerging Leader Awards! The Emerging Leader Award is dedicated to celebrating and advancing mid-level professionals from backgrounds under-represented in the water utility space, who are poised...
2018 WaterNow Alliance Impact Award – Nominations Open!
WaterNow Impact Award Nomination Form The Impact Award is a recognition opportunity specifically to honor public water agency decision makers for leadership around accelerating and/or expanding innovative and sustainable water solutions in their communities. Any...
Report Back: WaterSmart Innovations 2017
We are just back from WaterSmart Innovations 2017 and want to congratulate our friends at the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the Alliance for Water Efficiency and others on the 10th Anniversary for this terrific event. Billed as the “world’s premier urban water...
A “One Water” Future for America’s Cities
**This blog is cross-posted from NLC's City Speak - you can see the original post here** This is a guest post from Cynthia Koehler, Executive Director of the WaterNow Alliance and a session leader at City Summit 2017. If there were any doubts about the central role of...
Notes from the Field: And the Winner is…
Earlier this month, I traveled to Arizona for the culmination the AZ Pure Water Brew Challenge. If you’re not familiar with this initiative, please check it out! It’s an innovative project that won the AZ Community Foundation’s Water Prize last year, and we’ve been...
REPORT BACK: Catalyzing Action
Download our complete Summit Report Back [PDF] and view online photo album here. On April 20-21, WaterNow Alliance held our annual summit in Boulder, CO. It was a dynamic two-day event filled with engaging conversations, thought provoking presentations,...
Senate Bill Introduced to Encourage Residential Water Conservation
Water utilities nationwide are increasingly providing rebates to consumers to incentivize efficiency and water innovation with great success particularly in California where local investments in efficiency were at the forefront of addressing the state’s major drought....
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WaterNow Announces Second Round of Colorado Regional Accelerator Projects
Through Project Accelerator, WaterNow partners with communities and water agencies to champion sustainable, innovative water solutions. This application cycle built on the first Regional Project Accelerator, piloted last winter in Colorado. Participating communities,...