Clean Water Current

(July 30, 2020) – NACWA hosted the third and final session of its three-part webinar series, Partnerships to Reduce the Impacts from COVID-19 on the Water Sector on Tuesday, July 28.

The session was moderated by Yvonne Forrest, Director of Houston Water in Texas. To kick things off, she presented a summary of the steps that Houston Water has taken during its COVID-19 response. Ms. Forrest outlined the policies that Houston had already developed, like its pandemic policy, continuity of operations plan, family and medical leave policies, as well as the procedures that were still in development when the crisis hit, such as a telework policy, workplace procedures, and essential employee communications.

The bulk of the webinar featured NACWA’s private sector partners, each presenting on different strategies, technologies and philosophies that can help guide a utility through this crisis and the early stages of returning to work as the pandemic subsides.

NACWA thanks the following water sector partners who participated as speakers and shared their insights with the rest of our public clean water community: Steve Straus, President of Glumac; Jeff Theerman, Vice President and Senior Utility Performance Consultant at Brown and Caldwell; Cindy Wallis Lage, President, Water Business at Black & Veatch; Thomas Brzezinski, Chief Business Development Officer of Wade Trim; and George Hawkins, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Moonshot, LLC.

If you were unable to attend the webinar, you may access the slides presented here, and check back here to find a recording of the session.

While this three-part webinar series has concluded, please be on the lookout for many more virtual event offerings from NACWA coming up in the near future. If you would like to make an inquiry about a past or upcoming NACWA virtual event, please contact NACWA’s Manager of Media and Communications, David Zielonka.