U.S. Water Prize – Nomination Deadline Extended

Are holiday festivities and end-of-the-year chaos stressing you out? If they are, then the U.S. Water Alliance (Alliance) is excited to offer you some relief. The Alliance is happy to announce that we are extending the 2012 U.S. Water Prize nomination deadline to December 31, 2011, 11:59 pm! The U.S. Water Prize recognizes individuals and [...]

One Water Networking

U.S. Water Alliance is inviting selected water leaders to a one-day meeting, February 10, 2012, in Washington D.C., to discuss principles, priorities, and actions to advance integrated water management. The goal is to mobilize government agencies, non-profit organizations, and association representatives to unite as signatories to an MOU for Sustainable Integrated Water Management (SIWM) and [...]

Business and Water Converge in Atlanta

The U.S. Water Alliance’s Business Advisory Council (BAC) met in Atlanta on November 10, 2011 with new leadership, new members, and new opportunities to advance the value of water, public-private partnerships, and innovative collaborations. Steve Maxwell, the new Chair of the BAC and a long-time advisor on water-related mergers and acquisitions and author of the [...]

Treatment Plant Powered by Floating Solar

With so much of the Earth’s surface covered by water, it only makes sense to utilize this surface for the production of solar electricity. Last month New Jersey American Water announced the completion of a floating 538 solar module array near its Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant in Millburn, N.J. It is the first solar [...]

Airdrop – Wins James Dyson Award

The 2011 James Dyson Award has been awarded to Edward Linacre of Melbourne, Australia for his Airdrop irrigation system — a device capable of transforming drought-ridden areas into fertile farmland. The James Dyson Award is an international student design award running in 18 countries. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, [...]

Have Floods Changed with Increasing CO2 Levels?

Only one of four large regions of the United States showed a significant relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and the size of floods over the last 100 years. This was in the southwestern region, where floods have become smaller as CO2 has increased. This does not necessarily mean a strong relationship between [...]

iTree: An Overview and Introduction to iTree Hydro

i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree Tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of community forests and the environmental services that trees provide. A webinar recording [...]

Plans Surface for Clean Water Fracking Standards

On October 20, EPA announced its intent to establish Clean Water Act standards for shale gas and coalbed methane. The Agency will propose the methane regulations in 2013 and the shale gas regulations, which are limited to pretreatment standards for wastes sent to publicly owned treatment works, in 2014. Both are in response to concerns [...]

Missed the Conference? No Problem!

By popular demand, the five spotlighted cities, and more, from last month’s Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference in Milwaukee are now available via video. The conference attended by some 200 participants from across the United States was live streamed, archived and broken into modules. Each of the cities brought cross-agency, cross-department, business and community leader [...]

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: Fresh Facts & Critical Choices

Join us Thursday, November 17, at 2:00 p.m. ET for the webcast series Hydraulic Fracturing: Fresh Facts & Critical Choices to explore the potential footprint on ecosystems as well as safeguards state regulators are using and developing to protect ground water. Kevin Heatley with Biohabitats, Inc., will discuss the significant landscape impact that can occur [...]