Like learning to talk again: Jersey Water Works Membership Meeting Highlights

Jersey Water Works is a collaborative: many people with many perspectives coming together around a central goal of improving our state’s water infrastructure for all New Jerseyans. It was especially fitting that over 100 Jersey Water Works members attended the collaborative’s fourth annual membership meeting in Camden, NJ — a city that embodies the same… Continue reading Like learning to talk again: Jersey Water Works Membership Meeting Highlights

Manny Teodoro Writes About the Water Quality Accountability Act

Manny Teodoro, Texas A&M Associate Professor, writes an opinion piece on the Water Quality Accountability Act (WQAA). In the post, he discusses how the WQAA may provoke fear from those who don’t want to be responsible for, or pay for, water rate increases, but has the ability to “transform the politics of drinking water.” He… Continue reading Manny Teodoro Writes About the Water Quality Accountability Act

Reports on Potential Solutions from CSO Permit Holders Require Local Input

The statewide coalition comprises a number of JWW member organizations and it helps to advance the collaborative’s shared goals. For more information, please visit the Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers campaign website. All of the Development and Evaluation of Alternatives reports that were submitted to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) on July 1, 2019 have been… Continue reading Reports on Potential Solutions from CSO Permit Holders Require Local Input

How Water Investments Drive New Jersey’s Economy

Water infrastructure drives New Jersey’s economy; however, deferred maintenance and inadequate levels of investment are putting the state’s prosperity and future at risk. Until recently, the total economic impact in terms of jobs and dollars spent was not well understood, so today, the first day of Infrastructure Week, a national annual campaign, five statewide water… Continue reading How Water Investments Drive New Jersey’s Economy

A Call to Action: We Can Take Back the Tap, One Municipality at a Time!

Older cities and towns throughout New Jersey and the nation are facing a public health crisis – lead in drinking water. The most common source of lead in tap water is from the lead service line (LSL, curb to the home), lead solder at pipe joints and faucets. The most protective remedy is to fully… Continue reading A Call to Action: We Can Take Back the Tap, One Municipality at a Time!

At Convention, Builders Take Interest in Green Infrastructure

Why does green infrastructure make good business sense in private-sector projects? Two experts explain why in a new video produced by New Jersey Future. George Vallone, founder and chief executive officer of Hoboken Brownstone Company, and Jeromie Lange, engineer and senior principal at Maser Consulting, make several convincing arguments about the business sense and overall return on… Continue reading At Convention, Builders Take Interest in Green Infrastructure

Watershed Ambassadors Program a Win for Water Sector Workforce

This content was adapted and originally appeared on the Association of Environmental Authorities’s blog. Several AEA member organizations get a boost for their community outreach and education efforts and great prospects for hiring via participation in the AmeriCorps New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors Program, which was first developed and initiated by the New Jersey Department of… Continue reading Watershed Ambassadors Program a Win for Water Sector Workforce

Seminars Highlight Programmatic Changes at the New Jersey Water Bank

The Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) are federal-state partnerships that provide communities with permanent, independent sources of low-cost financing for a wide range of water infrastructure projects. The loan programs are administered jointly by the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank (I-Bank) and the New Jersey Department of… Continue reading Seminars Highlight Programmatic Changes at the New Jersey Water Bank

Municipalities get boost from major federal water legislation

Following years of advocacy, bipartisan sponsorship, as well as House and Senate support, the administration signed the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act amending the Clean Water Act on January 14, 2019. A progressive move, considering the recent efforts to repeal the 2015 definition of the Waters of the United States rule and revise it, narrowing the definition of… Continue reading Municipalities get boost from major federal water legislation

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