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WaterNow Announces Regional Accelerator in Southwest Pennsylvania
Calling Southwest Pennsylvania water utilities and communities: apply for WaterNow’s Regional Project Accelerator! We are excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the next round of Project Accelerator – focused specifically on Southwest...
Business Gets Behind Efficiency
Kudos to Jim Wunderman, President and CEO of the Bay Area Council, for his excellent op-ed in the East Bay Times this week, “Conserve Water Now to Prepare for Drought.” As the “Voice of Bay Area Business,” representing the largest employers in the region, the...
Notes from the Field: The Beer Truck visits Flagstaff
During the last weekend in June, while Arizona made national headlines for a record-breaking heatwave, I traveled from the temperate headquarters of WaterNow Alliance on the San Francisco Bay to Flagstaff to work with the all-star AZ Pure Water Brew Challenge team at...
WEBINAR: What Does “Making Conservation a Way of Life” Mean for Local Decision Makers? (7/12)
REGISTER: bit.ly/WebinarCAFramework Join us Wednesday July 12, 2017 from 11:30am-1pm. Registration is free. Governor Brown issued Executive Order B-37-16 a year ago elevating water conservation as a key strategy in California’s long-term plan to become water...
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....
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, and new...
EPA’s WaterSense Program Works – It Deserves Our Support
Since its 2006 launch, EPA’s WaterSense Program has been vital to water efficiency efforts across the country, providing significant economic value to ratepayers and water utilities as well as important environmental benefits. WaterSense-labeled fixtures have saved...
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New Report Highlights How to Finance Green Infrastructure Establishment Costs
By Caroline Koch, Water Policy Director, WaterNow & Stephanie Vo, Senior Water Policy Associate, EPIC The Environmental Policy Innovation Center and WaterNow Alliance’s new report, Navigating Green Infrastructure Maintenance with Capitalized Establishment Costs,...