The 2-year-old Milwaukee Water Council trade group, which leads the city’s ambitions to become a global center of water technology, on Friday announced that it has hired its first executive director. The high-profile position went to Dean Amhaus, 51, who currently works as president of Spirit of Milwaukee Inc., a one-man civic promotion agency that’s…

The United Nations on Tuesday will designate Milwaukee as a U.N. Global Compact City, making it one of 13 such cities worldwide, in a move that will help the region promote its image abroad as an international hub of water technology. The 5-year-old U.N. program obligates member cities to showcase progress on issues that involve…