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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,...
Gov. Brown Gets Real at Ceres
There are few things more interesting or entertaining than a speech by Governor Jerry Brown. Congratulations to our friends at Ceres for an extraordinary conference bringing together investors, business, NGOs, academics and other thought leaders around advancing...
WaterNow Impact Award: Winners Announced
Congratulations to Councilmember Campbell & Director Elie Disposal of brine concentrate generated by water treatment facilities using reverse osmosis technology is a problem West-wide. This highly concentrated waste can have acute environmental impacts requiring...
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: Santa Fe County, NM
No one likes a leaky pipe. At WaterNow Alliance we champion the untapped potential of innovative, often technological, solutions to help reduce water loss from leaks. And so does Santa Fe County, NM - Water loss due to leaks on the customer side of the meter...
Prof. Diffenbaugh gets it right, and right on time.
Thanks to Stanford Professor Noah Diffenbaugh for an excellent and timely piece in the NYT today, “What California’s Dam Crisis Means About the Changing Climate.” Several key points in Professor Diffenbaugh’s analysis deserve special attention, particularly as they...
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...
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Investing in Local Water Infrastructure for a Resilient, Livable Future
By Peyton Siler Jones, Program Director of Sustainability, National League of Cities, in collaboration with Cynthia Koehler, Executive Director, WaterNow Alliance City leaders are essential decision makers in stewarding our water resources. Ninety-five percent or more...