Los Angeles to Host 4th Annual Leadership Conference

Green infrastructure and sunshine will inspire you at the next Urban Water Sustainability Leadership Conference, September 23-26. Los Angeles, a former U.S. Water Prize winner, will showcase their innovation, integration, and collaboration model along with other Spotlight Cities. Resource recovery developments will also be featured at this national focal point for one water sustainability. Organized [...]

“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 [...]

Leadership Conference Drives Collaboration

“What our planet needs today is a Force Multiplier,” urges Dan Bena, Senior Director for Global Sustainable Development, PepsiCo, in his keynote address.  “The only multiplier effect that is capable of producing those kinds of results is a word that literally means creating a whole greater than the sum of its parts: collaboration.”  In a [...]

U.S. Water Alliance Adds Two More Leaders to Its Board

(Washington D.C.) Dan Bena, Senior Director of Sustainable Development for PepsiCo, and Mary Ann Dickinson, Executive Director for the Alliance for Water Efficiency have joined the U.S. Water Alliance’s Board of Directors. Their membership increases the scope of an already diverse Board dedicated to uniting people and policies for water sustainability.  “We’re honored global water [...]

Urban Water Sustainability Leaders to Convene in Cincinnati

WHO: The U.S. Water Alliance is a nonprofit educational organization based in Washington D.C. and dedicated to uniting people and policies for water sustainability.  The organization’s Urban Water Sustainability Council organizes the conference and is composed of water municipal leaders and other organizations pursuing the cutting edges to usher in a paradigm shift for green [...]

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 [...]

Sidebars and Roundtables – Where Will You Be?

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]