2012 U.S. Water Prize Winners to be Celebrated

The winners of the U.S. Water Alliance’s 2012 U.S. Water Prize will be honored in a special ceremony on Monday, April 23, 2012, at the Washington Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C.  National water and environmental leaders will attend the celebration. Each recipient will receive a handcrafted, water-inspired, ceramic art work commissioned from internationally acclaimed potter [...]

Save the Date: Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference

Please save the date for this year’s Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference. We hope you will be able to join us on October 15-17 in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Registration will open May 1, 2012. Responsive to the needs of today and responsible for meeting the needs of tomorrow, urban water leaders are forced to make bold, [...]

Alliance Joins U.S. Water Partnership

The U.S. Water Alliance is one of three civil society members joining the Global Environmental & Technology Foundation, the U.S. Department of State, and others in a public-private partnership to share U.S. knowledge, leverage and mobilize resources, and facilitate cross-sector partnerships to find solutions to global water challenges, especially in the developing world. In an [...]

Alliance President Testifies Before Congress

On March 21, 2012, Alliance President Ben Grumbles testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment in a hearing on water infrastructure funding.  He said that “We urgently need water innovation and collaboration, not only to sharpen and polish existing tools, but also to forge new tools for communities [...]

Google Partners with Douglas County on Reuse

Google recently partnered with Douglas County, GA to reduce its local data center’s environmental impact. Data centers must maintain cool temperatures to keep their equipment from overheating. When Google’s data center opened in 2007, it was using drinking water from the Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority (DDCWSA) for cooling, later Google realized how much [...]

7 Technologies to Help Manage Our Water Use

From the daily newspaper being downloaded rather than delivered to the use of RFID chips in lieu of paper currency, technology continues to integrate itself in our daily lives. As reported in a Treehugger article, there are many innovators that are working on some of the biggest water crisis issues facing our world today. While [...]

Deeper than Water Video

The Columbia Water Center, a branch of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is dedicated to research and analysis of water issues across the world, with a particular focus on water scarcity. The Center has released an animated video entitled “Deeper Than Water.” Visually striking and full of useful facts and figures, the video is [...]

NOWRA – It’s All Water

The “it’s all water” theme is rapidly emerging as the dominant water management paradigm. This is true for distributed systems, too, as evidenced at the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA) annual meeting held recently in Providence.  Several of the papers discussed distributed wastewater treatment and the new NSF Reuse Standard (NSF 350) which now [...]