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NACWA Board Report - July 17, 2014
General Observations and Comments
• Collaboration, partnerships, resiliency, innovation, community communications
and buy -in to focus on the great things that industry accomplishes
• Partnerships especially with non - conventional partners
• partnerships with local graduate student research programs
• Green Infrastructure
• Nutrients — leave this to Dave Williams
• Innovation - can be done everywhere and on anything
• Triple bottom line processes raised several times regarding evaluations of needs
- much more meaningful to community and customers
• search for new and unusual revenues sources
• Programs priority based upon what is best for customers and the community not
just risk, etc.
• what is the value of the utility to the community? define and promote concept
• lots of revisions to discharge parameters being reviewed and evaluated - using
permits to implement not thru normal rule making processes
• Water quality criteria for viruses and bacteriophage due Spring 2015
• Funds available - Farm bill and US Dept of Energy
• NACWA Energy workgroup being established looking for members
• Publications discussed
• EPA: Moving Toward Sustainability: Sustainable and Effective Practices for
Creating Your Water Utility Roadmap
• WEF: Energy Road Map
• NACWA: Todays Clean Water Utility: Delivering Value to Ratepayers,
Communities and the Nation
• WOTUS - comments due by Oct 20th - are we engaged in this evaluation?
WE NEED A NEW DISTRICT NAME to reflect changing nature -of out
business and the industry - GM CEO not GM
• Logic can take you from A to B; Imagination will take you everywhere -
Einstein