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Project Accelerator comes to Southwest Pennsylvania
WaterNow is excited to announce a new Accelerator Project in Southwest Pennsylvania! Through Project Accelerator, we partner with communities and water agencies to champion sustainable, innovative water solutions. As part of our developing regional work in Southwest...
WaterNow Alliance Impact Award
**DEADLINE TO APPLY IS MARCH 20, 2017** COMPLETE THE NOMINATION FORM The WaterNow Alliance Impact Award is a new recognition opportunity specifically to honor public water agency decision makers for leadership around accelerating and/or expanding innovative and...
Integrating Economic and Racial Equity into Sustainable Water Solutions
In the torrent of goodbye emails from members of the Obama Administration, this one is my favorite: I am filled with joy. Eight years of serving our beloved nation – together. I could not ask for more. And I can only think of one way to begin repaying the debt:...
$1 Billion in credit assistance available for water – including “green” infrastructure projects
On January 10, 2017, EPA announced the availability of approximately $1 billion in loans for water infrastructure projects under the new Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program. In the Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations...
2017: Making Conservation a Way of Life in California
It’s a shiny new year, and looking ahead, one of the things we at WaterNow Alliance are most excited about is that 2017 looks to be the year that “conservation becomes a way of life” in the Golden State. In May, Governor Brown issued Executive Order B-37-16 elevating...
Notes from the Field: Arizona’s Pure Water Brew Challenge
Last week the WaterNow Alliance team traveled to Phoenix to kick off the Arizona Water Prize winning project with the Southwest Water Campus, WateReuse, and the Arizona Community Foundation. To recap: the winning team put together a proposal for a statewide direct...
WaterNow Travels to Pittsburgh for NLC City Summit 2016
Last week, Cynthia and I traveled to Pittsburgh, PA for the National League of Cities’ (NLC) City Summit – an annual gathering of thousands of local elected officials and municipal staff. We’ve been fortunate to have NLC as a key partner for a couple years now and, as...
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Water Center at Penn and WaterNow: We Think This Is The Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship…
By Cynthia Koehler, Executive Director, WaterNow Alliance & Howard Neukrug, Executive Director, Water Center at Penn We had been bumping into one another for years at conferences and meetings before one of our funders pulled together a group that they saw as...