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Water

Focus Area
MDB strengthens efforts to protect watersheds, preserve water resources, and improve water quality.
Our work includes collaborative efforts to protect human and ecosystem health, support community-led initiatives, and develop local economies around sound water management. We have extensive experience providing technical assistance, strategic planning, program evaluation, strategic communications and facilitation, and stakeholder outreach for water sector projects.

Our team has strong subject matter and communication expertise in the following areas:
  • River restoration
  • Stormwater management
  • Water reuse
  • Water equity & resilience
  • Public health outcomes
  • Water infrastructure & water utilities
We provide the following services:

Integrated Watershed Management

We facilitate partnerships with local watershed experts, federal and state agencies, water utility partners, and nongovernmental organizations to improve water systems and promote their economic, environmental, and social benefits to communities. We also collaborate on water management issues such as river restoration, stormwater management, and water equity and resilience.

Wastewater

MDB supports public-private partnerships to improve decentralized wastewater treatment and management. Our efforts address best management practices for homeowners on decentralized systems, or septic systems.

Nutrient Pollution

We translate scientific watershed data and share information on water quality and nutrient management for outreach campaigns to encourage pollution reduction, recreational use of waters, and safeguards to drinking water.
FACT SHEET
To see more details on our recent and past projects, view our Water fact sheet.