by Tia Lebherz | Policy, WNA Blog
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...
by Tia Lebherz | Projects, WNA Blog
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...
by Tia Lebherz | Policy, WNA Blog
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...
by Tia Lebherz | WNA Blog
**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...
by Tia Lebherz | WNA Blog
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:...
by Tia Lebherz | Policy, WNA Blog
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...
by Tia Lebherz | WNA Blog
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...
by Tia Lebherz | Projects, WNA Blog
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...
by Tia Lebherz | Events, WNA Blog
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...
by Tia Lebherz | Projects, WNA Blog
The wait is over – the winner of the Arizona Community Foundation’s Water Innovation Challenge has been determined at last. Congratulations to Pima County’s Wastewater Reclamation Department, and their partners the City of Tucson, Marana Water, Carollo Engineers,...
