Archives by Tag 'water use efficiency'
Wingspread Foundation Water Funders Forum (January 2010)
CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary and Associate Rebecca Tuden teamed with conveners from The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread to facilitate a three-day workshop among 27 leading grant-making organizations involved in national and regional water resource efforts. The meeting was convened from January 13 – 15, 2010 at The Johnson Foundation in Racine, Wisconsin. Participants in the [...]
New CONCUR Fact Sheet on Watershed Planning
CONCUR has prepared a new fact sheet focused on our watershed planning experience and expertise (download PDF).
Watershed planning touches on a broad range of issues including local land use policies, stream protection concerns, restoration goals, flood control, and water quality. The planning framework can be transboundary and address implications for climate [...]
Carpe Diem - Western Water & Climate Change (2007-present)
CONCUR provided strategic planning advice to the kick off meeting of the Carpe Diem - Western Water & Climate Change project. The project is an alliance of experts and decision makers committed to addressing the unprecedented challenge of climate change impacts on western water resources. By linking leaders and incubating new initiatives and [...]
UN CEO Water Mandate Initiative (March 2008)
CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks facilitated the inaugural meeting of the CEO Water Mandate, a United Nations-sponsored initiative that brings together business leaders and the broader international community with a focus on improving strategies and efforts to address the emerging global water crisis.
The initiative focuses on six main topic areas: direct operations; supply chain [...]
CALFED: Assessment of Water Use Efficiency Technical Assistance (2006-2007)
As part of ongoing inter-agency efforts to implement a Water Use Efficiency (WUE) Program in California, in 2007, the US Bureau of Reclamation asked CONCUR, Inc. to conduct an assessment of the technical assistance provided in support of local WUE programs. CONCUR gathered information from two main sources: a set of approximately 40 confidential stakeholder [...]
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (October 2007)
CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary facilitated a deliberation of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) on October 25-26, 2007 at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall Law School. Scott worked alongside Bill Hull of CGBD and Steve Whitney of the Bulllitt Foundation, the co-conveners the meeting. The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD) is a grantmakers forum [...]
Distributing Limited Resources in the Imperial Valley (2006)
CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks teamed with UC Berkeley Professor Michael Hanemann to assist the Imperial Irrigation District (District) in evaluating and ranking different methods to support the equitable distribution of water within the District. The District provides irrigation water and electric power to the lower southeastern portion of California’s desert. The Imperial Valley produces [...]
Developing a Reliable Plan to Conserve Water in the Imperial Valley (2005-2007)
CONCUR was part of a multi-faceted team headed by Davids Engineering of Davis, California hired by the Imperial Irrigation District to develop a plan for conserving more than 300,000 acre-feet of water for transfer to San Diego and elsewhere. In its role in the project, referred to as the Definite Plan, CONCUR was responsible for [...]
CALFED: Using Joint Fact-Finding to Resolve Long-Standing Disputes (1998-2005)
From 1998-2005, CONCUR organized, structured and facilitated several high-profile and technically complex independent review processes intended to help resolve several aspects of California’s long-standing water wars. These independent review panels – undertaken as part of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, a state-federal initiative intended to resolve the state’s intertwined water supply reliability, water quality, levee system [...]
Strategic Planning for the California Urban Water Conservation Council (2002-2004)
CONCUR assisted the California Urban Water Conservation Council in several strategic planning initiatives. CONCUR designed and facilitated a two-day retreat in February 2004 intended to help the Council, a Sacramento-based nonprofit that brings together California urban water agencies, environmental groups and others committed to accelerating the implementation of urban water conservation best management practices, develop [...]