“One Water” Resolution

I’m not keen on New Year’s Resolutions (especially the ephemeral ones that come and go faster than desert rain, which I happen to love) but 2013 deserves at least one good and lasting Resolution. Here’s mine:  I resolve to partner with individuals and organizations like never before to help advance “One Water” – the concept [...]

Scare City

Water stress can strike fear into the hearts of communities, businesses, and ecosystems but a publicly-supported, scientifically-defended reuse movement can ease the anxiety and pave the way for sustainability even in the face of scarcity. On October 23, 2012, GE released the results of a survey on public attitudes and knowledge levels in the U.S., [...]

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 [...]

National Leadershp Conference in Cincinnati Expands Upon White House Green Infrastructure Dialogue

(Washington D.C.) On September 19, the White House Council on Environmental Quality and U.S. EPA convened experts from around the country to explore the barriers and solutions to using “more green and less gray” in managing municipal stormwater.  The U.S. Water Alliance will expand the dialogue by presenting the 3rd annual Urban Water Sustainability Leadership [...]

Strategic Questions to be Addressed at Leadership Conference

(Washington D.C.) In its third year, the Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference in Cincinnati, October 15-17, has become a focal point for driving integration, innovation and collaboration toward green infrastructure and resource recovery.  “The U.S. Water Alliance is uniting has recruited and seeks to unite the full spectrum of urban water interests,” explains Ben Grumbles, [...]

SHIFTING TO GREEN: Leaders Spotlight Their Best Models

Cincinnati is the place to be October 15-17 for the 3rd annual Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference. The meeting has become the focal point for urban leaders to drive the paradigm shift from gray to green and take the waste out of wastewater with resource recovery.  Different from other more technical workshops on the topic, [...]

Crooks and Nannies

Environmental enforcement policies can have hard and soft edges, twists and turns, not unlike an english muffin or stale political rhetoric. With all the recent “news” about rogue regulators and heavy-handed enforcement, though, it’s a good time to review some basic principles and emerging opportunities to make environmental progress, while minimizing politicized extremes. For starters: [...]

Registration Open: Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference

Registration for this year’s Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference is open! We hope you will be able to join us on October 15-17 in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Don’t miss out on the reduced registration fees.     As a focal point for the national dialogue on resource recovery and green infrastructure, this Leadership Conference has been [...]

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 [...]

Clean Water America Alliance welcomes new Board Members

Download (Washington, D.C.)  The U.S. Water Alliance will add four new Directors to its Board.  “The Alliance is broadening its perspective and growing its membership of proven leaders,” explains President Ben Grumbles.  Joining the Alliance Board are: John Batten, Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Sales for environmental consulting firm Malcolm Pirnie, the Water Division [...]