Water conservation is often portrayed as something that has a negative financial impact. For example, water conservation is frequently blamed as the sole reason for revenue shortfalls and rate increases. This one-sided view fails to see that cost-effective water conservation programs financially benefit water utilities and their rate payers. The Alliance for Water Efficiency has developed a suite of resources to help professionals and consumers better understand the dynamic between water conservation, water rates, and revenue.
When: Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Time: 9 a.m. PDT | 10 a.m. MDT | 11 a.m. CDT | Noon EDT
Cost: Free
Featured Speakers:
Mary Ann Dickinson, President & CEO, Alliance for Water Efficiency
Thomas W. Chesnutt, CEO, A & N Technical Services, Inc.
Bill Christiansen, Director of Programs, Alliance for Water Efficiency
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Next week, the Alliance for Water Efficiency and CalWEP will be at Water Smart Innovations, the largest urban-water efficiency conference of its kind in the world. But we won't just be there as attendees, we'll be training, presenting, exhibiting and convening. We've put together a comprehensive list of where you can find us.
Congress is on the verge of making the WaterSense program a part of federal law for the first time, lifting this highly successful public-private partnership from its status as a “discretionary” program at the U.S. EPA to federal legal status. The House has approved this change as part of a massive water infrastructure bill which the Senate is expected to pass and send to the White House before adjourning at the end of September. Once WaterSense is enacted into law, it will qualify for annual appropriations rather than being funded at the discretion of the EPA administrator. In the meantime, both the House and Senate have passed an EPA spending bill that instructs the EPA to continue operating WaterSense throughout fiscal 2019, which begins October 1. Learn more on the Alliance for Water Efficiency's website