Please Note: This workshop has been canceled.

CEUs: This workshop has been approved for 0.63 core CEUs.

Now more than ever, water utilities must learn to be resilient in the face of an uncertain future. This interactive workshop will give you tools to help identify risks and recognize opportunities to manage and plan for impacts. Techniques will also be shared to gather community and leadership support for your resiliency initiatives.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Identify critical community assets and assess their resilience
• Build impact scenarios to define future opportunities, threats, and identify impacts on critical assets
• Use tools to make planning decisions
• Apply techniques to gain support, manage conflicts, and move your projects and ideas forward

Trainers: Lauralee Barbaria, Associate Director, and Elaine McCarty, Senior Associate, EFC West
Contact: Jes Eckerlin, jeschn01@syr.edu
Cost: Complimentary.

Who Should Attend:
This workshop is designed for water systems serving 10,000 or fewer people (though systems of any size may attend), especially targeting local government systems facing financial challenges. Local government drinking water system managers, clerks, treasurers, elected officials, and others who budget and/or set rates are encouraged to attend. Owners of privately owned systems, consultants and technical assistance providers serving water systems are also invited to attend.