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This week, community leaders from across the Great Lakes region gathered in Milwaukee for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative annual conference.

The Water Council and Marquette University’s Sustainability Lab held our first-ever Nexus Sustainability Leaders Summit last week, and what a way to kick off a new event! Nearly 200 people gathered at the Harley-Davidson Museum to discuss pressing topics in water and energy, including climate resilience, meeting the needs for the energy transition, the role of artificial intelligence in water and energy, and sustainable finance.

We are proud to announce that we are teaming up with Marquette University’s Sustainability Lab to bring you the Nexus Sustainability Leaders Summit on Oct. 29 and 30 in Milwaukee.

We’re coming off a week that included the Water Leaders Summit, our biggest event of the year, along with a meeting of Great Lakes WISE and the Asian Development Bank Roadshow. But there’s little rest for our team, as WEFTEC is less than two weeks away. That’s followed by our international business development event in Milwaukee, when we will host more than 40 guests from Europe plus companies from Brazil and Canada. Read more in our September newsletter.

Resiliency – defined as the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties – is important to many of our members working in water technology, water and wastewater utilities, and water stewardship. So it made sense for resiliency to be the theme of our 2023 Water Leaders Summit, held Sept. 13 and 14 in our hometown of Milwaukee, Wis. Each year, the summit draws water and sustainability professionals from across the country to discuss pressing water issues and network with fellow leaders in the water sector.

Businesses in the Great Lakes region have not had a forum of their own to discuss water issues, encourage water stewardship and promote this valuable resource in our collective backyard – until now. That’s what we are creating, in collaboration with the Council of the Great Lakes Region, in Great Lakes WISE (Water Innovation & Stewardship Exchange), which held its first roundtable last week in Chicago.

WEFTEC is Almost Here! We are excited to see many of you Oct. 10-12 in New Orleans for WEFTEC, the global conference for water professionals organized by the Water Environment Federation…. Read More

Our Water Leaders Summit is only two weeks away! We’ve put together a dynamite slate of discussions for the Oct. 5 and 6 event centered on today’s biggest water headlines, including water scarcity in the West, water’s role in national security, corporate water stewardship and PFAS remediation.

A Sharper Focus on Water Risk By Dean Amhaus, President & CEO We’ve finally (almost) made it to summer, but at The Water Council we are already thinking about autumn… Read More

Busy times for all of us, but for The Water Council team that has been especially the case the last several weeks! Read about our experience at WEFTEC, new members of our Board of Directors, a new membership program and upcoming innovation programs in our October update.