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Establishing a Watershed Partnership
This report describes how to proliferate connections between point and nonpoint sources of nutrients to meet permit requirements and improve water quality.
It’s Time to Tap Into Innovation: Federal Challenges Can Help Solve Stubborn Problems
Federal challenges, also known as prize competitions, represent an exceptional platform for federal agencies to collaborate with external organizations to push the boundaries of science—and to discover innovative solutions to diverse problems.
The Wide World of Drinking Water Data
For experts working to improve drinking water quality and access, the data is almost as important as water itself. How can we better access this data? Who has safe, affordable, and quality drinking water—and who doesn’t? This blog begins to answer some of those key questions.
ICYMI: A Recap of our 2023 Procurement Policy Work
Probably More Than You Want to Know About SRF Compound Interest
Variation in Borrowing Costs Between Different States’ Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Fund Programs
Challenges to Scaling RCPP: A review of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program's 2023 notice of funding opportunity
New Report: Challenges to Scaling RCPP
New report examines the challenges to administratively scaling the Regional Conservation Partnership Program
Public Comment: OSTP’s Environmental Justice, Science, and Data Research Plan
Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not just in Iowa anymore!
A conversation about watershed partnerships in Kansas
Why Offsets on Public Lands is a Bad Idea
What do they want? Biodiversity Credits. When do they want it? Soon!
What is motivating biocredit buyers at this early stage as the market is in development? Why would corporate buyers and other entities be interested in investing in migratory songbird or salmon credits? What’s in it for them? Today the BCA released a new issue paper, “Demand-side Sources and Motivation for Biodiversity Credits'' that untangles some of these incentives and rationales.
Navigating Murky Waters: Tackling Saltwater Intrusion in Southeastern Louisiana
While the federal government spent tens of billions on water infrastructure in FY23, it has yet to prioritize the significant economic and health impacts of saltwater intrusion.
The Golden Rules of Pay for Success Procurement
Three Powerful Tools for Tracking Water Infrastructure Investments
A riparian forest buffer outcomes fund for the Chesapeake Bay
President Biden Delivers on Promise to Replace All Toxic Lead Pipes
Case Study: Revamping Water Quality Exchange
We Are Still Hunting for Treasure in a Sea of Environmental Information
Improving a Program that Works: Prioritizing New Jersey Water Bank Projects in Disadvantaged Communities
This report, published with New Jersey Future, looks at the New Jersey Water Bank (NJWB), which has provided over $9 billion in low-cost financing for water and wastewater infrastructure projects in the state. The report analyzes NJWB awards (i.e. low interest loans and principal forgiveness) over a 5-year period and also assesses the underlying policies governing how New Jersey defines disadvantaged communities.
The report’s ten recommendations would increase the equity and effectiveness of the NJWB program and ensure that communities with the greatest needs receive adequate assistance.