Register Now for Creative Partnerships Webinar by the Source Water Collaborative

Register now for the Creative Partnerships webinar on August 25th from 12-1pm (eastern) that will be the first in the Source Water Collaborative’s (SWC) new Learning Exchange webinar series. The Learning Exchange has been launched in celebration of the SWC’s ten-year anniversary and aims to strengthen the effectiveness of source water practitioners across the country by providing a platform to share experiences, transfer knowledge, and learn about funding and technical resources available to support their efforts.
During this first webinar (hosted by ASDWA), source water protection leaders will discuss their experiences with non-traditional partners and share tips on:  how to select potential partners and establish new partnerships; common barriers encountered and ways to overcome them; and sustaining and expanding partnerships for long-term engagement. Webinar presentations will include:

• Lynn Thorp from Clean Water Action, and Steve Via from American Water Works Association (AWWA), will share how they partnered with the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) and the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) to register their concerns with EPA that the final Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards should be sufficiently stringent so as not to leave water systems to grapple with bromide — when a Clean Water Act program could help them avoid Safe Drinking Water Act compliance problems caused by pollution discharges upstream.

• Jim Capurso with the U.S. Forest Service, will share tips from the Drinking Water Providers Partnership, an effort that facilitates environmental conservation and restoration in municipal watersheds across the Northwest. This partnership includes multiple agencies: USDA Forest Service, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the Washington Department of Health, the EPA, the Bureau of Land Management, the Geos Institute, and WildEarth Guardians.

Registration is free and open to anyone who would like to participate.