Events on the Horizon

Hydraulic Fracturing Webinar 2: Transparency The U.S. Water Alliance is conducting a four-part webinar series Hydraulic Fracturing: Beyond Name Calling to Real Environmental Protection. Register now for the second webinar, Transparency that Benefits All–Disclosing Fracturing Fluids and Operations, which will take place on February 19, 2013 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST. UPDATE: Webinar 1: Knowing [...]

National Design Competition – Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up!

The Philadelphia Water Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Community Design Collaborative have launched a national design competition to promote the creative, innovative use of green stormwater infrastructure in Philadelphia and other cities. The design competition is part of Infill Philadelphia: Soak it Up!—a design initiative exploring how green stormwater infrastructure can revitalize urban neighborhoods. [...]

Hippie Infrastructure

The greening of gray and the softening of hard has come a long way in the last 40 years, but this “nature-based,” green infrastructure movement still has a ways to go.  It got a boost, though, in September in Washington DC and it’s going to get another big bump in October in Cincinnati Ohio. In [...]

Water Blues ~ Green Solutions

The U.S. Water Alliance will convene an Outreach Partner meeting of communications pros later this month to strategize how to effectively promote and leverage a new documentary by Penn State Public Broadcasting called Water Blues ~ Green Solutions.  The nationally distributed public service media project is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2013.  It [...]

White House CEQ to Host Green Infrastructure Conference

The White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are hosting a day-long conference at the White House on September 20, 2012, invitation-only. This conference will explore ways to widely implement green infrastructure practices in general, but will focus heavily on practices of municipal stormwater solutions. Several of the [...]

Great Cooperation for the Great Lakes

Canada and the United States have updated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement on September 20, 2012. Peter Kent, Minister of Environment Canada and Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed a new Agreement protocol between the nations. This treaty update is the product of an agreement from three years ago, at the [...]

Forests & Faucets, Wetlands & Waterworks

Earth Day and U.S. Water Prize celebrations remind me that some of the most important things we can do for water are above the intake and beyond the outfall–sometimes many miles above and beyond the man-made infrastructure systems. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recognizes this and its “Forests to Faucets” project, is doing something about [...]