2016 Arizona Sun-Corridor Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Understanding water challenges, success stories, and potential solutions
Date: 9:00a – 4:00p, 4/11/2016
Location: Archon Seminar Room, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona
The purpose of the 2016 Sun Corridor Stakeholder Meeting is to jump start the UWIN network building activities that aim to connect people concerned with urban water sustainability. During the meeting, we will introduce the UWIN project, work to identify concerns, needs, and potential urban water sustainability solutions within the Sun Corridor region, and collectively think about how UWIN research can assist. Input gathered during the meeting will be used to guide national level project efforts, which include the development of an urban water sustainability framework, the UWIN Blueprint.
Meeting Agenda
Continental Breakfast
Pre-workshop survey
Welcome and Introduction
Gary Pivo: welcome, introductions, agenda overview and purposes
All: self introductions
Mike: national engagement project overview
Network Activity 1
Facilitated brainstorming: KEY STRENGTHS of the region’s water, wastewater, and stormwater systems; MOST SERIOUS THREATS to those systems; any major economic, social, or ecological problems caused by those systems; key efforts or success underway to address threats and impacts; possible solutions not being widely tried that deserve a closer look; key impediments to implementing solutions.
Break and Purposeful Conversation: Find two people you don’t know and share your water interests, questions, or concerns
Network Activity 2
Discuss, Refine, Categorize, and Assess Ideas
UWIN Overview Presentation
Mazda Arabi: Introduction to UWIN project and discussion of appropriate regional boundaries and time frames
Lunch in the Underwood Family Sonoran Landscape Laboratory
UWIN Research Presentation:
The local UWIN technical team – Professor Tom Meixner: Rainwater Harvesting Research
Network Activity 3:
Facilitated discussion: What are your greatest needs for assistance and how might UWIN address them? For example, linking with UWIN experts, help you learn from peers via various communication avenues, inform our research activities, data needed to help you implement actions toward desired water targets.
Network Activity 4:
Social / professional Network Expansion Activity and how the UWIN network might be used to support the region’s needs and goals
BREAK
Closing discussion:
Next steps and how to stay in touch and share information.
Post workshop survey
Starting the conversation about challenges to urban water systems in Arizona.
Learning about urban water challenges and solutions from diverse perspectives.
Sharing ideas for key questions for research and innovation.
Bringing it all together by organizing inputs from various participants.
Tom Meixner presenting an example of UWIN research on green infrastructure.