AWWA JAW72066

For the past year, AWWA committee members - first as part of the Sustainability Ad Hoc Committee and now as the Sustainability Initiatives Coordinating Committee - have worked to review current AWWA sustainability activities, identify additional short- and long-term activities for the association, and develop a draft strategy for implementing the recommended activities. Short-term activities are defined as those that can be completed in 2010 with minimal staff and financial resources; long-term activities are identified as those that will require some level of staff time and/or financial resources. More than 40 past, planned, or potential activities were identified. The ad hoc committee then reviewed and narrowed the list to seven short-term and seven long-term activities. This article provides an overview of the process and details the identified activities along with the committee members responsible for implementing them.

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