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WaterSense Proposed for Elimination Once Again

Submitted on April 17, 2019

April 22, 2019 Update: A letter signed by 126 organizations has been sent to members of Congress. President Trump has released his budget for FY2020, and it proposes to eliminate the WaterSense program – yet again. As you all know, we...

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Water Efficiency is a Good Business Proposition

Submitted on September 4, 2018

The following op-ed by Mary Ann Dickinson, AWE President & CEO and CalWEP Executive Director, was published August 9, 2018 in the Sacramento Business Journal. Click here for the original publication.  "When you think about dry cleaning, water might not...

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New Study Demonstrates Water Conservation’s Pay Off for Ratepayers

Submitted on September 4, 2018

SACRAMENTO–Are Los Angeles ratepayers better off by conserving water over the long term? That’s the question explored in a new study released by the California Water Efficiency Partnership (CalWEP) and Alliance for Water Efficiency in partnership with the Los Angeles...

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2018 AWE Annual Member Meeting & Reception

Submitted on August 22, 2018

AWE is pleased to announce that at its annual member meeting and reception in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 the featured speaker will be Dr. Frank Loge, Director of the U.C. Davis Center for Water-Energy Efficiency. Frank’s talk...

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Resisting the Fix: Pushing Back on the Impulse to Raise Fixed Water Charges

Submitted on February 28, 2017

By Janice A. Beecher, Ph.D. Director, Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University In the wake of flat or falling sales revenues, many a water (and energy) utility have turned to the idea of raising fixed charges. This might seem...

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