Resource Library
Welcome to the River Network Resource Library!
Search through hundreds of publications, recorded webinars, newsletters, tools, and templates to support your water work. Explore specific topics using the icons below, or if you’re not sure what you need, use the search bar. Type in keywords like “strategic planning,” “State Revolving Fund,” or “data collection.” The resources included here are intended to help you advance your work and spark innovation and new ideas.
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Featured Resources
- Building Blocks of Trust – how community organizations and utilities can work together.
- Self-Paced Training – based on the Building Blocks of Trust
- Colorado SMP – everything you’d ever need to know about stream management planning in Colorado.
- Equitable Infrastructure Toolkit – learn to advocate for equitable water infrastructure in your community.
- Tools for Equitable Climate Resilience – how to perform community-led research and support local leaders to advance climate resilience.
- Waste in Our Waters: A Community Toolkit for Aquatic Litter Removal – one-stop shop for building a litter removal program.
- The Clean Water Act Owner’s Manual – the quintessential, transformational tool on how YOU can use the CWA to protect your waters.
- State Revolving Fund Advocacy Toolkit – a comprehensive guide for advocates looking to get up to speed on the SRF process.
- Effective Organizations – a five-part learning series on everything from board governance, to volunteer management, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and more.
- Mastering the Grant Lifecycle: From Prospect to Execution – a five-part learning series to make your grant management more effective.
Looking for information on specific state-level water policies? Explore the State Policy Hub!
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Private Wells & PFAS: What You Need to Know
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: WebinarDoes your drinking water come from a private well? Are you concerned that members of your community may be exposed to contaminants in their drinking water? Watch this learning session devoted to the specific topic of drinking water wells, their regulat… View Resource ›
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Fact Sheet Hub – Drinking Water
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: PublicationsExplore the fact sheets based on River Network’s Safe, Affordable Drinking Water program focus. These fact sheets cover topics such as water infrastructure, privatization, climate resilience, safety, and more! This resource page will be updated periodi… View Resource ›
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Keep the Water Flowing: 2-Part Learning Series on Avoiding Water Shutoffs
Program: Drinking Water, Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarOn March 10 and 24, 2026, River Network hosted a two-part learning series related to our resource Keep the Water Flowing: Best Practices for Avoiding Water Shutoffs. The recordings of each session and related resources are below. Part 1: Lessons and Be… View Resource ›
Keep the Water Flowing: Best Practices for Avoiding Water Shutoffs
Program: Drinking Water, Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Publications, Tools and TemplatesKeep the Water Flowing: Best Practices for Avoiding Water Shutoffs includes background information on the problem of water affordability concerns, how the practice of water shutoffs harms households and communities, highlights three case studies of water utilities and community groups tackling affordability concerns with empathetic and innovative programs and policies, lays out ten tangible ways we can reduce the use of water shutoffs at the local level, and includes state and federal policy examples and recommendations to tackle water shutoffs and affordability crises.
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Drinking Water Guide Fact Sheets
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: PublicationsExplore the fact sheets based on River Network’s Drinking Water Guide. Available in both English and Spanish, the Guide answers the following fundamental questions: Where does drinking water come from? How can we protect our drinking water? What does a… View Resource ›
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The Fundamentals of SRF Administration & Influencing Equitable Infrastructure in Your Community
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: WebinarWatch our 3-part training series focused on unpacking the fundamentals of State Revolving Fund (SRF) administration – how they work, how to influence the process and how to understand the intersection of water affordability and water infrastructure funding.
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Resources
Program: Drinking Water, Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Tools and Templates, WebinarWatch the recorded peer calls and explore the opportunities within IIJA related to removal, rehabilitation, and retrofit of dams and western water issues. The resource also includes links and tools related to implementation advocacy.
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State Revolving Funds Resources
Program: Drinking Water, Resilient Cities & Communities, Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Tools and TemplatesA compilation of resources for anyone looking to learn more about State Revolving Funds (SRFs), the largest source of federal funding for water infrastructure, including the SRF Advocacy Guide, a community forum, and more.
Building Blocks of Trust: Creating Authentic and Equitable Relationships Between Community Organizations and Water Utilities
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: Publications, ReportsIn this report you’ll find best practices and case studies you can apply locally to create and bolster relationships between local water utilities and community organizations that will improve the health of waterways and communities.
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Drinking Water: Community Action & Advocacy
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: WebinarJoin River Network and our community partners from around the Great Lakes for conversation about how to take action on drinking water in your community to ensure clean, safe, and affordable water for all. Speakers: – Alicia Smith, Junction Coalition of… View Resource ›
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Making the Case for Equitable Water Infrastructure Investment, Repair, and Upgrades
Program: Drinking Water, Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarDo you want updated drinking water and wastewater treatment plants and pipes, more rain gardens to reduce stormwater pollution and flooding, and opportunities to restore local rivers and floodplains? Do you want these infrastructure investments to crea… View Resource ›
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Drinking Water Resources
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: PublicationsSome 13.8 million U.S. households (almost 12%) face unaffordable water bills while water utilities struggle to fund maintenance or replacement of aging pipes. We expand the network’s understanding of the causes and circumstances of today’s crisis, deve… View Resource ›
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Drinking Water 101 webinar series: Understanding the Basics of Drinking Water Sources, Treatment, and Quality
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: WebinarThese recorded webinars provide an introduction and overview of drinking water processes, policies, and protection. Maria Lopez-Carbo, Deputy Division Director for Standards & Risk Management in EPA’s Office of Ground Water & Drinking Water lea… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Water Quality Portal Data Discovery Tool
Program: Drinking Water, Water Science
Resource Type:The Data Discovery Tool is a free open-source, downloadable tool that can interact with the Water Quality Portal to retrieve and explore water quality monitoring data. The tool automatically downloads data from the Portal, does some preliminary QA/QC,… View Resource ›
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Federal Budget Toolkit: 3 Step Guide
Program: Drinking Water, Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Tools and TemplatesOur voices are critically important and decision makers need to hear how important federal programs and agencies are to our communities and watersheds. This 3-Step Guide outlines how we can let our senators, representatives and the Administration know… View Resource ›
