Events
Recent Luncheon Presentations and Other Events
2011-2012
Theme: “Exploring the Value of Clean Water”
- 12/15/2011 – Luncheon meeting
, Thursday December 15 at DuPont Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington
2010-2011
Theme: “Protecting Our Global Water Resources”
- 05/12/2011 – Luncheon with Wendy Larson, LimnoTech
Senior Scientist and Business Leader for water sustainability
and water footprinting issues (flyer
,
presentation
)
- 03/24/2011 – Luncheon with John Sauer, Assistant
Director of Thought Leadership for Water for People (presentation
)
- 02/10/2011 – Luncheon with speaker Ben Grumbles,
President, Clean Water America Alliance (flyer
)
- 12/01/2010 – Joint luncheon event with USAIDIS, the U.S. chapter of the Inter-American Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineers
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Horst Otterstetter speaking on impacts of pharmaceuticals in waters in Brazil |
The audience asks questions during Horst Otterstetter's talk, December 1, 2010 |
Qunicalee Brown, President of US Chapter of AIDIS |
- 09/30/2010 - Luncheon with speaker Gilberto Irizarry, EPA
Office of Emergency Management (flyer
)
2009-2010
Theme: “The Next Generation of Water…Challenges & Opportunities”
- 04/29/2010 – Luncheon hosted by the Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC. Speaker – Kevin O’Shea, Minister for Political Affairs
Kevin O’Shea, Minister for Political Affairs
- 03/24/2010 – Luncheon with Joe Romm, Editor of Climate
Progress and a Senior Fellow at the Center for New American
Progress (flyer
)
Joe Romm, Editor of Climate Progress
- 02/24/2010 – Luncheon with speaker Jeff Lape, Director of
the Chesapeake Bay Program (flyer
,
FAQ
)
- 01/29/2010 – Luncheon with Cliff Randall and Rich Batiuk,
co-hosted with the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (flyer
)
2008-2009
Theme: “Evolving Perspectives on Water Resources Management”
- 12/04/2008 – Claudia Copeland, Congressional Research Service,
“Perspectives on the 111th Congress” (presentation
)
- 02/20/2009 – Paul Freedman, WEF President-Elect, “21st Century
Challenges for the Water Professional” (presentation
) (pictures
from event)
- 03/26/2009 – Patricia Sincropi, NACWA Director of Legislative
Affairs, “Meeting Clean Water Needs with American Recover y and
Investment Act” (presentation
)
- 04/23/2009 – Jeff Corbin, Virginia Assistant Secretary of
Natural Resources, “3 Down…1 To Go: 2009 – Governor Kaine’s Year
of the Environment and Energy” (presentation
)
Tracy Mehan addressing FWQA
2007-2008
Theme: “Building Sustainable Communities”
- 11/29/2007 – Rick Thoesen, Deputy General Manager of Loudoun County’s Sanitation Authority, “Water and Sewer Sustainability in a Competitive Economic Corridor: Loudoun County’s Challenge for the Future.”
- 01/17/2008 – Jerry Johnson, General Manager, DC WASA, “The
District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority's Comprehensive
Wet Weather Management Initiatives” (presentation
)
- 02/14/2008 – Tracy Mehan, The Cadmus Group, “Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainable Water Management”
- 03/20/2008 – Uwe Brandes Managing Director of Initiatives at the Urban Land Institute, and Paul Kibel, lecturer in Water Policy at the University of California at Berkeley “American’s Urban River Restoration”
- 04/17/2008 – Suzanne Adams, Sustainability Project Leader, Weston Solutions, “The Race for Green”
Tracy Mehan receiving award
2006-2007
Theme: “Evolving Perspectives on Water Resources Management”
- 11/14/2006 – Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security “The Business of Water: New Opportunities and New Challenges”
- 02/15/2007 – Claudia Copeland, Congressional Research Service “A Look at the New Congress”
- 04/26/2007 – Jim Sullivan, General Counsel, the Water Environment Federation “Building a Culture of Water Security”
2005-2006
- 09/29/2005 – Greg R. Masson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, “Partnerships between DOI/FWS and EPA and Other Agencies”
- 11/17/2005 – Jim Wheeler, U.S. EPA and Tim Schmitt, LimnoTech, “Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans: A Primer on the Environmental Handling of Billions and Billions of Gallons of Floodwater”
- 02/23/2006 – Linda Kelly, Managing Director for Public Education, the Water Environment Federation, “WEF Outreach Strategy”
- 03/30/2006 – Jeff Corbin, Virginia Assistant Secretary of Natural Resources, “The Next 4 Years – A Focused Approach to Improving the Health of Virginia’s Waters”
- 04/27/2006 – Nancy Stoner, Natural Resources Defense Council, and “EPA's Blending Policy: A Product of Partnership”
Other Events
- 10/02/2008 – Tour of EPA Green Infrastructure, led by Anne Weinberg, Communications Coordinator, EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds
- 09/18/2006 – Tour of Green Roof at Casey Trees
- 10/07/2005 – "Community Responses to Water Quality in New Zealand" at the Embassy of New Zealand
Annual Events
- Science Fair Judging – annually in the Spring
- Awards Luncheon – annually in May
- Golf tournament to benefit scholarships – annually in the Fall