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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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Promoting Green Streets – A Recipe for Integrating Water and Transportation Infrastructure Investment
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Manuals, Reports, Tools and Templates
To address complementary municipal goals of improved water quality and restored natural hydrology, this project focused on the development of a simple and logical methodology to promote street-based stormwater management. This methodology is guided by… View Resource ›
River Voices July 2016 Issue: Climate Change
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table Of Contents Building Climate Resilience at the Water’s Edge by Rebecca Wodder, Center for Humans and Nature and River Network Freshwater Protection: Factoring Climate Change Volatility into Your Work by Lois DeBacker, The Kresge Foundation Climat… View Resource ›
River Rally 2016 Session: Promoting Green Streets
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: River Rally Content, Tools and Templates
Every year tens of thousands of gallons of water run off neighborhood streets carrying pollutants and erosive energy to our most vulnerable streams. Historically, these flows found their way into the soil more immediately, replenishing ground water and… View Resource ›
Municipal Green Streets Projects and Resources
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Tools and Templates
Many cities across the U.S. are leading the way and focusing significant attention and resources on retrofitting their streets and alleys with green infrastructure. View this list of municipal green streets projects and resources compiled by River Netw… View Resource ›
River Voices Volume 23 Number 2, 2013: The Community Renewal Connection
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents: 1 The Community Renewal Connection by Rick Magder 3 Letter from the Chair 6 Depaving with Good Intentions by Kasandra Griffin 12 Ex-Offenders Grow and Learn by Francis Lawn 14 Emergence of a College-based Watershed Group in West Mich… View Resource ›
River Voices Volume 21 Number 2, 2011: Sustaining Rivers in a Warming World
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents 1 Sustaining Rivers in a Warming World by Wendy Wilson 3 Letter from the President 8 Lessons from our Great Grandparents by Steve Malloch 10 Energy Water Collision by John Rogers & Erika Spanger-Siegfried 14 How Much Carbon Does Y… View Resource ›
River Voices Volume 19 Number 1, 2009: Restoring Rivers Within City Limits
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents 1 Restoring Rivers Within City Limits by Amy Souers Kober & Betsy Otto 3 From the President 9 Eleven Places to Look for Restoration Opportunities. Excerpt from Center for Watershed Protection 14 Challenges & Opportunities in U… View Resource ›
River Voices Volume 18 Number 1, 2008: Green Communities For Clean Water
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents 1 Green Communities for Clean Water by Gary Belan & Katherine Baer 3 From the President 8 Green Buildings 101 by Gwen Griffith 12 Good for Buildings and for Rivers by Margo Farnsworth 14 The Economics of Low Impact Development by… View Resource ›
River Voices Volume 16 Number 4, 2006: Water, Energy, and Climate Change
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents 1 Water, Energy and Climate Change by Don Elder 3 From the President 6 Possible Water Resource Impacts 8 River-friendly Responses to a Changing World by Andrew Fahlund 12 Municipal Water Efficiency by Judith Barry 13 Stormwater as a… View Resource ›
River Voices Volume 14 Number 3, 2004: Effects of Stormwater Runoff From Development
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities, Water Science
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents 1 Effects of Stormwater Runoff from Development by Robert Pitt, P.E. Ph.D. 3 From the President 8 Facts and Figures Related to Runoff 9 Strategies & Approaches by Betsy Otto, Sally Bethea, Hye Yeong Kwon, and George S. Hawkins 1… View Resource ›
River Voices Volume 8 Number 2, 1997: Flood Policy and Management: A Post-Galloway Progress Report
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities, Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents 1 Flood Policy and Management: A Post-Galloway Progress Report by Scott Faber 3 From the President 8 Responding to the 1997 California Floods by Charlie Casey with Rita Haberman 14 Countering the “Quick-Fix” and Developing Long-Term S… View Resource ›
River Voices Volume 4 Number 4, 1994: A New Approach to Floodplain Management
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents: 1 – Beyond the Ark A New Approach to U.S. Floodplain Management. by Jon Kusler, Assoc. of State Wetland Managers and Larry Larson, Assoc. of State Floodplain Managers 4- The Great Flood of 1993: Summary, Analysis and New Directions…. View Resource ›
River Voices January 2016 Issue: Disaster Preparedness and the Road to Resiliency
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents Disaster Preparedness and the Road to Resiliency by Barb Horn, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Nicole Silk, River Network Crisis as an Opportunity for Transformation by David Lillard, West Virginia Rivers Coalition Using a Watershed P… View Resource ›
River Voices July 2015: Green Infrastructure and Urban Rivers
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Publications, River Voices
Table of Contents The Urban Water Landscape: by Bob Zimmerman From Gray to Green: by Evan Branosky Getting RainReady: by Harriet Festing Urban Green Infrastructure: by Chris Dreps Transformative Change: by Jill Jedlicka and Susan Kornacki Solutions to… View Resource ›