Our 2025-2029 Strategic Priorities and Goals reflect our current regional, national and international activities in support of our mission, and guide our efforts into the future.
Priority: Inspire and inform collective action for clean, sustainable water.
Goals:
- Develop, implement, and support community engagement and outreach strategies that educate stakeholders.
- Enhance initiatives and partnerships to prepare for emerging environmental issues.
- Strengthen regional efforts to ensure that drinking water and wastewater infrastructure protects public health.
- Work with partners to prepare for updates to the Clean Water Act.
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Priority: Advance scientific monitoring and data collection to drive effective strategies for responding to water quality conditions.
Goals:
- Support integrated planning, adaptive management, and monitoring to protect and restore watersheds and waterbodies.
- Build a shared understanding of, and strategy for, contaminants of emerging concern.
- Help states and other partners, including non-governmental organizations, prepare for and manage impacts of shifting weather patterns and extreme events.
Priority: Strengthen the clean water workforce.
Goals:
- Attract and retain skilled professionals within our organization.
- Support industry-wide initiatives and partnerships that promote technical proficiency.
- Create training programs to support consistency, professionalism, and excellence across the water workforce.
Priority: Ensure that we and our partners have sufficient, sustained financial resources to advance our collective work.
Goals:
- Collaborate with state, federal, nonprofit and community partners to make efficient and effective use of available resources.
- Coordinate with member states to implement funded initiatives.
- Identify and leverage emerging funding streams.
- Strengthen partnerships to address funding requirements associated with creating new and/or maintaining aging infrastructure.
