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 [...]

Urban Leaders Band Together to Advance Water Sustainability

Save the Date for the 2011 Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference, in the World Water Hub of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 3-5, 2011. Based on the success of last year’s Leadership Conference, teams of municipal leaders in sustainability will explore models that feature cross-agency collaboration for green infrastructure and resource recovery. The timing of the conference [...]

Milwaukee Seeks to Become the Water Hub of the U.S.

Water is big business in Milwaukee. In southeastern Wisconsin, more than 120 businesses with 20,000 employees are involved in the water industry. Five of the eleven largest water companies in the world have a presence there, including Veolia North America, ITT Corp., Pentair, General Electric, and Siemens Water Technologies. Academic institutions, including the University of [...]