Disaster Politics and Policy in Transition
2025-08-26 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
July’s deadly floods in Texas were seen as a test of the administration’s work to downsize the government and overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Now we’re in the midst of hurricane season and 20 years away from Hurricane Katrina.
Join POLITICO’s E&E News reporters on Tuesday, August 26, at 1:00pm ET, for a review of the administration’s actions, the backlash in Congress and how disaster politics have changed in the past two decades.

Water & AI Fireside Chat
2025-09-04 06:30 - 08:00 | Virtual
How can AI reshape the future of global water stewardship?
That’s the focus of the next episode of The Conversations, hosted by Earth05.
We’re bringing together two leading voices:
Will Sarni – Water Innovator, Earth Finance (Moderator)
Alexis Morgan – Global Water Stewardship Lead, WWF (Speaker)
This conversation explores how artificial intelligence can accelerate innovation in water systems, improve sustainability outcomes, and enhance global stewardship practices.
Join us live. Engage in the dialogue that shapes the future.

Smart Planning and Funding for Drinking Water and Wastewater Systems
2025-09-04 07:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
Demand for drinking water and wastewater funding is increasing in communities across Idaho. These demands exceed the available state and federal funding sources that many communities have historically relied on to fund projects. This training will focus on what communities can do when a crucial project does not receive funding. Participants will explore opportunities to develop financially sustainable infrastructure amidst funding shortfalls.
Training topics include:

Funding outlook versus current and future demands
Cost drivers impacting projects and anticipated trends
Case study examples and practical next steps

Click HERE for the workshop agenda, or copy and paste this link into your browser: https://www2.deq.idaho.gov/admin/LEIA/api/document/download/23788

The Lingering Storm 20 Years After Katrina—Stories of Hope and Action. Presented by Mother Jones, Capital B, and the Texas Observer
2025-09-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Julia Ideson Building, 550 McKinney Street, Houston, TX, 77002
Two decades after Hurricane Katrina changed the Gulf Coast—and the nation—forever, we gather to reflect, reckon, and look forward. “The Lingering Storm: Climate Change, Displacement, and Action” explores how communities such as Houston have not only responded to the challenges of climate change and displacement but also become stronger, more connected, and more determined than ever.
Event Highlights:

Reporting on Climate Change: Acclaimed journalist Soledad O’Brien (formerly of CNN), Mother Jones’ video correspondent Garrison Hayes, and Capital B’s climate and environment reporter Adam Mahoney reflect on the legacy of Hurricane Katrina and how it reshaped the national conversation around climate reporting. This panel explores how coverage of environmental disasters has evolved since Karina, what challenges persist, and how today’s climate crisis continues to impact vulnerable communities across the United States.
Starting Over and Building Anew: Hear from inspiring voices who’ve turned loss into leadership. In a roundtable panel, former Houston Mayor Bill White, Hip Hop Caucus’ Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., and local grassroots leaders explore the immediate and long-term challenges the storm brought to Gulf Coast communities such as Houston—and the resilience, leadership, and community-driven efforts that have shaped the path to recovery and renewal.

Together, we’ll honor the past, confront the present, and imagine a more just and resilient future.

Artificial Intelligence in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
2025-09-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Disaster recovery requires a coordinated set of actions and strategies aimed at restoring affected areas immediately following an event. As the number of disasters per year significantly increases, emergency managers and responders are inundated with large amounts of data processing and decision-making required for successful response and recovery outcomes. Artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant potential for facilitating many of these activities. By enhancing decision-making and communication, AI would allow officials to concentrate more effectively on critical aspects of the response. The EPA’s Homeland Security Research Program has been working to leverage AI and enhance disaster readiness for several years. This presentation will showcase real-world applications of AI and its future potential in disaster preparedness and recovery. The EPA is researching AI technology integration in a way that can significantly improve predictive capabilities, streamline response efforts, and optimize recovery processes, ultimately reducing the impact on communities. This presentation will highlight successful implementation of AI in current disaster management scenarios, providing tangible examples of technology-driven improvements in environmental cleanup outcomes.

Mining for Answers: Colorado’s Abandoned Mines Water Quality Portal
2025-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join us for an enlightening webinar exploring the Abandoned Mines Water Quality Webportal, an innovative resource that consolidates data from Colorado’s abandoned mine surveys and sampling efforts. Discover how this collaborative platform streamlines access to up-to-date water quality information, helping inform ongoing remediation and resource management decisions.
Learn more about the tool here: https://erams.com/catena/tools/colorado-collaborative/abandoned-mines/ See less

How do beavers impact water?
2025-09-26 08:30 - 09:30 | Virtual
Do beaver dams actually increase water temperatures? How do beaver ponds impact water quality, pollutants, and sediments? Conservation Biologist Cortney Dean takes a look at the data, challenges, and unexpected findings of beaver-water research in northwestern Wisconsin.
Cortney Dean is a conservation biologist located in Eau Claire, WI. She studies beaver impacts to the biotic and physical components of ecosystems. Her research focuses on water quality, food webs, and biodiversity impacts to avian and bat species.

SALT Framework for Risk Communication
2025-10-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Risk communication is communication intended to supply audience members with the information they need to make informed, independent judgements about risks to health, safety, and the environment. Risk communication should be meaningful, understandable, and actionable. As the U.S. EPA pursues its mission to protect human health and the environment, EPA staff practice risk communication every day. Effectively communicating science and potential health risk is one of the most important jobs we have. The SALT Framework is based on a process of Strategy, Action, and Learning and is supported by Tools that together provide a research-based approach and best practices for communicating our work to the American people. This webinar will go over how to use the SALT framework as well as a discussion of key practices and principles for effective risk communication. While the SALT framework is intended for EPA staff, the guiding principles can be applied to any organization’s risk communication efforts.

EPA Tools & Resources Webinar: PFAS Destruction by a Hazardous Waste Incinerator
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The complete destruction of PFAS is important to help protect human health and the environment. Technologies that can destroy PFAS are needed to treat stockpiles of materials with high concentrations of PFAS, such as aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) and other contaminated environmental matrices. PFAS properties make them difficult to destroy, and other fluorinated compounds and PFAS may be formed as byproducts (known as products of incomplete destruction or PIDs) if conditions are not adequate for their destruction. It is important to evaluate the efficacies of various technologies for the destruction of PFAS. This presentation will describe the development of Appendix A of EPA’s 2024 Interim Guidance on the Destruction and Disposal of PFAS and Materials Containing PFAS and its use to evaluate thermal treatment technologies, including results of an evaluation of a full-scale hazardous waste incinerator to evaluate air emissions and the effectiveness of incineration. Results show promise for both incineration and the ability to conduct a comprehensive characterization of an incinerator (report).

Improving Water Quality with Sensors - Success Stories
2025-10-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
From sewers to Great Lakes: scaling sensor systems in your community. Learn about saving money and making smarter decisions with sensors from a review of two case studies from Michigan and Ohio.
Have you kept up with advancements in environmental sensing? Scared of talking to salespeople instead of scientists and engineers about new technology? Worried about the cost of scaling and being locked to proprietary systems? Well so are we! That’s why we founded Freeboard Technology in 2022 as a subsidiary of LimnoTech. Born out of decades of experience monitoring the Great Lakes and supporting hundreds of communities with environmental issues, Freeboard is transforming monitoring and real-time sensing.
Join this webinar to hear our approach to modernizing environmental infrastructure to make important decisions right now. Although we love fancy modeling and using cutting edge AI, those tools are useless without high-quality direct observations of your river, lake, stream, wetland, or urban stormwater system. Hear how organizations have trusted Freeboard to select, build, deploy, and operate critical real-time sensing systems. The webinar will review two success stories. The first one in Michigan increased the number of observations in priority watersheds ten-fold to track agricultural impacts to harmful algal blooms. The second focuses on reducing combined sewer overflow impacts in small communities with limited resources in Ohio. Both take advantage of Freeboard’s unique ability to help your organization build and operate new sensor systems quickly. Our engineers and scientists are using the latest global innovations in sensors, secure cloud infrastructure, and small batch manufacturing to massively grow the number of sensors deployed by your organization.

Introducing the New Jersey Funding One Stop Shop
2025-10-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new tool, the New Jersey Funding One Stop Shop. Developed in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Atlas Public Policy, this interactive tool is designed to help users connect their efficiency, electrification, and other sustainability-focused projects with relevant federal, state, local, and utility funding programs. Join us on October 20th, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm ET for an introduction to the tool, including a live demo and Q&A. Meanwhile, start exploring today at www.njonestopshop.org and see how the New Jersey Funding One Stop Shop can help bring your sustainability project to life.

Public Health and Climate Change Polling and Messaging Briefing
2025-10-29 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
Join the Environmental Polling Consortium and our partners for a deep dive webinar into the current state of public opinion and messaging research on public health and climate. This webinar is open to anyone in the climate, environmental, and public health space and best suited for those working on policy and communications.
Presentations include:
-Public perceptions of climate change as a health issue, presented by the George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication;
-Recent findings from the American Perspectives on Climate survey, presented by ecoAmerica; and
-Climate and health equity messaging, presented by University of Pennsylvania, Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media.
This is an hour long webinar followed by a 30 minute Q&A. We will record this session, so please register in advance to ensure you receive the recording and materials. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Tapping Into the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)
2025-11-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) provides local governments with low-cost loans and other financing for drinking water projects that protect public health. The DWSRF is a federally funded program that is administered by state agencies. Eligible projects include improving drinking water treatment, fixing leaky or old pipes, improving water supply sources, and replacing or constructing finished water storage tanks. This webinar will discuss how local governments can work with their state agencies to access the program’s funds and will feature cities who have initiated or completed their DWSRF projects as well as experts who can answer questions about how the program works. Attendees will gain access to one-on-one office hours with public health experts and tools to aid with stakeholder engagement and project development.

Best Practices for Federal Grant Applications Seminar
2025-11-12 11:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
You’re invited to join us for an upcoming seminar on Best Practices for Federal Grant Applications, designed to help local governments strengthen their capacity to access and manage federal funding opportunities.
This session will feature insights and practical strategies from experts who have helped communities across Colorado successfully navigate the federal grant landscape: Amy Broughton, Senior Principal, Stantec – Best Practices for Federal Grant Applications Snow Staples, Department of Local Affairs – Overview of the Local Match Assistance Program (LOMA) Alyssa Dinberg, Governor’s Office – Grant Writing Support Resources and Opportunities

GOCORE Webinar: “Communities in Action: Water and Climate Resilience”
2025-11-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
How can communities lead the way in climate resilience? 💪🌱
This session will explore how local communities are addressing water-related challenges—like floods, droughts and access to clean water—through innovative, community-driven solutions.
This GOCORE webinar will showcase inspiring community-led initiatives and best practices, following GOCORE approach to:
– ENGAGE local communities
– EMPOWER for collective action
– DEMONSTRATE the power of participation…
With real stories, testimonials and key actors making it happen!

Collaborating with our State Partners on Disaster Resiliency Planning
2025-11-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
EPA entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) in 2016 to collaborate in developing tools, reports, workshops, meetings, communications pathways, and other initiatives that will leverage resources and advance a mutually shared mission of protecting the public’s health from environmental threats and hazards and strengthen environmental health systems across the country. This webinar will provide a summary of projects completed to date under the MOA and then provide a deeper dive into the most recent project focusing on state disaster resiliency planning. ASTHO and the ECOS have been partnering to better understand state activities around resiliency planning and implementation. Join the webinar to learn more about this project, including case studies from Vermont and Colorado.

Integrating biodiversity and water management in smart urban planning
2025-12-12 03:00 - 05:30 | Virtual
How can cities balance technology, people and nature? 🌳💧
This online session provides the latest practical and academic knowledge on integrating biodiversity and the natural environment into urban planning, from creating greener streets to ensuring safe swimming waters.
You’ll learn how to use data and digital tools to monitor and manage the urban natural environment. By the end of this session, you’ll understand how biodiversity can become a driver of healthier cities with satisfied residents, and how to make this happen using modern digital tools.

Bridging the U.S. Water Gap: Investing in Water for All Communities
2025-12-12 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Across the United States, millions of people still live without running water, depend on lead pipes, or only have access to contaminated water. Our nation’s water infrastructure is long overdue for repair and renewal.
Join Kimberlee Cornett, our director of Impact Investments, Chris Ranniger, senior economic development loan officer at Communities Unlimited, and Maria Gallegos Herrera, director of Environmental Services at RCAC, for a timely discussion on the solutions and investments needed to deliver safe, affordable water to all communities.
For too long, certain regions of the country have been neglected when it comes to water infrastructure. With multiple threats to programs that aim to ensure clean drinking water, it’s critical to share why these programs are essential and how they offer a historic opportunity to reverse decades of disinvestment and ensure everyone, everywhere can access the water they need.

Water Almanac: New Year Web Briefing
2026-01-08 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
A lively panel of BlueTech’s network of TAG experts and Research Analysts will be discussing the key events and highlights from our research throughout the year, and making some predictions for what 2026 will bring for the water sector – and hosting a Q&A session.
Hosted by Divya Inna, highlights will include: – BlueTech CEO Paul O’Callaghan discussing why electrification is set to change the way the water sector works – Research Manager Dr Kim Wu on the key industry trends shaping BlueTech’s research in 2025 – VP of BlueTech Research Jeff Guild on highlights from the most interesting papers at WEFTEC this year – Senior Research Analyst Dr Vishal Wagholikar will discuss the latest advances in bipolar membranes – Research Director Rhys Owen will unveil BlueTech’s research directions for next year Our TAG experts will also be on hand to analyse the trends this year and what they mean for you, from hydrogen to PFAs to datacenters.

EPA Tools & Resources Webinar: Lead (Pb) Overview and Data Mapping
2026-01-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
EPA reconstituted a leadership and operational structure for lead (Pb) this past summer, affirming continued progress in reducing lead exposure across environmental media. EPA put forward approaches under Administrator Zeldin for actionable risk communication, cooperative federalism, and private sector innovation while continuing to work under the government-wide 2018 Federal Lead Action Plan and fulfilling its statutory authorities and responsibilities to reduce exposure to lead.
More specifically, EPA recently developed a blueprint for identifying potential lead exposures through multimedia data mapping using a systematic, flexible, multi-step process. Central to the blueprint is the mapping approach using indices and models based on publicly available old housing and other indicator data. A case example will be provided to demonstrate how the blueprint has been applied in partnership with state governments. The identification of high priority areas and sources of lead exposure can support targeted investment to improve health.
This webinar will present both an overview of the Administration priorities for lead and a detailed look at this data mapping approach available now for states and partners to use. Presenters are the Agency Lead (Pb) Coordinator, Sheila Xiah Kragie, and Pb researcher, Lindsay Stanek.

Texas Water Action Collaborative Meeting
2026-01-27 08:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
On Tuesday, January 27, at 10 AM CST, Elizabeth Carlson, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tricon International, is kicking off a new year of #TxWAC (Texas Water Action Collaborative) bi-monthly stakeholder meetings, hosted by Texan by Nature. Elizabeth will share her 2025 insights from Tricon’s sustainability strategy and the lessons she’s bringing to her role as Chair of the Fifa World Cup 26th Houston Sustainability Committee.
Facilitated by Texan by Nature, the Texas Water Action Collaborative (TxWAC) matches funders to projects. TxWAC accelerates investments in conservation projects that benefit natural resources in Texas. Complete the form below and click the register button to attend bi-monthly meetings. Agendas will be provided in advance of each meeting.
The purpose of these meetings is to:
– provide a collaborative space to share updates,
– learn more about projects that need funding,
– explore conservation tools/services,
– learn about water policy in Texas and ways to get involved
– and hear from corporates on their goals/funding priorities (and more!)
Learn more about how to get involved at https://texanbynature.org/projects/texas-water-action-collaborative/ and contact urvi@texanbynature.org for questions.

America's Children and the Environment
2026-02-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
EPA’s America’s Children and the Environment (ACE) serves as a national barometer for children’s environmental health, featuring over 35 environmental and health indicators. ACE indicators monitor the progress of EPA’s core mission to protect children’s health. Essential to the ACE tool is its ability to compile vetted data from a variety of high-quality, nationally representative sources to present informative and reliable indicators on children’s environmental health; inform and enhance discussions on key children’s environmental health issues; track trends in children’s environmental health and help identify opportunities for EPA to further our core mission to protect the nation’s children and families. This webinar will explain the foundations of ACE indicators, ACE’s utilization of new resources and tools, and how ACE is dedicated to better empowering parents and caregivers with practical guidance and resources under Make America Healthy Again (MAHA).

Headworks: The Start to Wastewater Treatment
2026-02-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Join us for a one-hour essential overview of headworks—the critical first line of defense in wastewater treatment facilities. This one-hour webinar is designed for wastewater operators, utility board members, and municipal decision-makers seeking to understand how headworks systems protect and support treatment facilities.
We’ll cover the essential components found in headworks (screens, grit removal, and flow measurement), explore common operational and maintenance considerations, and explain how effective headworks performance impacts the entire treatment process. Whether you’re hands-on in daily operations or making strategic decisions about your utility’s infrastructure, you’ll gain practical knowledge about this vital preliminary treatment stage and its role in protecting downstream equipment and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Presenter: James Markham, Research Engineer at the Southwest Environmental Finance Center

Advancing Nutrient Solutions for Estuary Management
2026-02-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Developing Dissolved Oxygen Criteria to Protect Propagation of Atlantic Sturgeon in Tidal Fresh Delaware River – Jim Hagy, EPA Office of Water
For decades, dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in the tidal-fresh Delaware River have been too low to support propagation of migratory fish, including the endangered Atlantic Sturgeon. In 2022, EPA determined that propagation of oxygen-sensitive migratory fish was an attainable use. Following an intensive period of method development and related policy development, EPA proposed new protective DO criteria in late 2023. EPA finalized the criteria in September 2025. This presentation will describe the physiologically-based cohort model and other aspects of the technical approach that EPA developed to support the rule.
2) Optimizing Nutrient Reductions Across the Long Island Sound Basin – Naomi Detenbeck, EPA Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions
This presentation provides an overview of the updates to EPA’s River Basin Export Reduction Optimization Support Tool (RBEROST); a description of linkages to source loads from the USGS dynamic SPARROW model for North Shore watersheds and a groundwater-based model for loads for South Shore watersheds; and preliminary results. RBEROST is designed to enable stakeholders to identify cost-effective solutions to meet watershed nutrient loading targets, considering potential upgrades to septic systems or wastewater treatment plants, implementation of stormwater best management practices or agricultural conservation practices, and restoration of riparian zones. EPA previously released two static versions of RBEROST and is preparing to release an expanded, dynamic version.

Presenters
Jim Hagy, EPA Office of Water
Dr. Hagy is a coastal environmental scientist in EPA’s Office of Water who has conducted scientific research and supported water quality management and policy development related to nutrients, eutrophication, and hypoxia in U.S. coastal waters. His research has addressed science and policy throughout the United States, with particular focus on Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf Coast, and recently Long Island Sound and the tidal-fresh Delaware River. Dr. Hagy’s recent work provided the technical basis for revised dissolved oxygen criteria for the tidal fresh Delaware River, which EPA promulgated in September 2025.

Naomi Detenbeck, EPA Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions
Dr. Detenbeck is an ecologist at EPA’s OASES Coastal Science Solutions Division in Narragansett, RI. Her current research is focused on the development and application of decision-support tools for watershed management (WMOST, RBEROST), refinement of spatial statistical temperature models for evaluating restoration options, and development of EPA’s Estuary Data Mapper. Her past research has included work on biogeochemistry, wetlands, landscape ecology, nutrient criteria development, and watershed classification. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Minnesota.

Moderators:

Brenda Rashleigh, EPA Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions
Brenna Friday, EPA Office of Water

Managing Stormwater in Small Communities
2026-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Small communities face unique challenges as they work to protect water quality and mitigate flooding. This webinar will explore the ways that intermunicipal collaborations can enable communities to leverage their resources, meet regulatory requirements, and unlock new funding and financing to pursue shared stormwater management goals. Join us to learn about resources and dive into real world examples that explore the process of developing and implementing these partnerships. The presentation will also discuss opportunities to connect existing partnerships with the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and other funding and technical assistance opportunities.
This presentation has 3 objectives:

Highlight the value of collaborative stormwater management efforts, especially for small communities
Share pathways, resources, and examples of how to establish these collaborative efforts
Highlight funding, financing and technical assistance available to support stormwater management in small communities, focusing on the Clean Water State Revolving Fund

Presenters: Jeff Colella, Stormwater Division Manager, Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority, Beth Uhler, Pennsylvania Director, Center for Watershed Protection, and Emerson O’Donnell, Senior Program Manager, WaterNow Alliance (moderator, introductory remarks)

Finding a Unicorn! Small Wastewater System Funding Series: Federal Procurement
2026-03-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
This webinar will focus on federal standards for acquiring goods and services with public funds. This session will also cover the competitive bid process, OMB procurement requirements and contracting public works projects.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand threshold requirements for procurement using federal funds and process for adhering to federal standards
• Review procurement documentation requirements
• Understand contract terms for vendors providing goods and services with federal grants
• Review of Build American, Buy America and Davis Bacon Act for public works projects
Presenters: Kathleen Kirkpatrick, Senior Associate and Tamira Jones, Federal Grants Officer, Capacity Collaborative

The Benefits of Internships for Wastewater Systems
2026-03-12 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
The webinar will explore why establishing an internship program can be highly beneficial for utilities. We will share practical ways to fund internships, where to find potential interns, and the types of tasks they can support to ease supervisory workloads. We’ll also cover strategies for helping interns transition into full time roles. By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
• Explain the benefits of establishing an internship program within a utility organization.
• Identify multiple funding options for supporting internship positions.
• Locate effective sources for recruiting qualified intern candidates.
• Describe meaningful tasks interns can perform to support supervisors and enhance operational efficiency.
• Outline strategies that help interns successfully transition into full-time utility roles.
• Understand how internship programs contribute to long-term workforce development and build a pipeline of future talent.
Presenter: Shannon Hazelton, Program Manager, The Environmental Finance Center at Wichita State University

Freshwater Explorer 2.0
2026-03-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
EPA’s Freshwater Explorer is an easy-to-use, interactive web-based mapping tool for exploring freshwater data from streams, lakes, and groundwater wells in all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It can be used by citizens and non-governmental organizations to better understand national and local water quality issues and to provide water quality information to help federal, state, territory, Tribal, and local partners make decisions about freshwater resources. Users can add spatial layers to explore associations between water quality measurements and natural and human geographical factors and any of the 10,000+ other available data layers accessible from the GeoPlatform that may affect water quality in the United States. This webinar will show users how to perform geographical searches and visualize background and measured data for water quality parameters.

Texas Water Action Collaborative Meeting
2026-03-24 08:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Facilitated by Texan by Nature, the Texas Water Action Collaborative (TxWAC) matches funders to projects. TxWAC accelerates investments in conservation projects that benefit natural resources in Texas. Complete the form below and click the register button to attend bi-monthly meetings. Agendas will be provided in advance of each meeting.
The purpose of these meetings is to:
– provide a collaborative space to share updates,
– learn more about projects that need funding,
– explore conservation tools/services,
– learn about water policy in Texas and ways to get involved
– and hear from corporates on their goals/funding priorities (and more!)
Learn more about how to get involved at https://texanbynature.org/projects/texas-water-action-collaborative/ and contact urvi@texanbynature.org for questions.

Drinking Water Data for the Nation: Version 1.0 Release
2026-03-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
All Americans deserve access to safe, reliable, and affordable drinking water. But making that access into a national reality means untangling a complex web of interdependent factors—including crucial, but often fragmented, water data.
That’s why EPIC is launching a new web-based platform: the National Drinking Water Dataset + Explorer Tool (Version 1.0). This effort is part of the Digital Service for the Planet (DSP) initiative.
This innovative tool harmonizes data across sources and scales—integrating 30 state and national datasets with 100+ variables— allowing policymakers, technical assistance providers and funders, advocates, researchers, utilities, and communities to access and use vital drinking water data to improve environmental and public health outcomes.
🚀 What: Drinking Water Data for the Nation: Version 1.0 Release Webinar
📅 When: March 26, 2026 from 2:00–3:00 PM EDT
🌐 Where: Virtual
What to Expect:
🔎 A behind-the-scenes look at how the tool came to be
💻 A live demo with its developers
🔭 A preview of what we expect in Version 2.0
❓ A Q&A with the audience
We hope you’ll join us for a rich dialogue exploring how better data integration can support smarter, more equitable drinking water investments now and in the future.
