Welcome to the new IoW newsletter! This monthly email will keep you up to date on all the news from the Internet of Water and our partners in the water data community. Keep reading to hear about upcoming events, recent blogs, water data news, and highlights from our ongoing projects!
Events
See what's happening across the Internet of Water network
IoW Webinar: Data-Driven Decision Making at WSSC Water
With Yvonne Carney, Strategic Performance Director, WSSC Water, Office of Strategy and Innovation
January 20, 2022 | 1PM - 2PM ET
IoW Network Events: Frontiers in Hydrology Meeting
Convened by the water sciences community and co-sponsored by AGU and CUAHSI
June 19-24, 2022 | San Juan, Puerto Rico & online
Submit your abstract by January 26, 2022
Water Features: An IoW Blog
Water Affordability

Everyone needs water, but many Americans are struggling to pay the rising costs of water services. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing water affordability and equity challenges. As widespread unemployment and shutdowns disrupted Americans’ lives water affordability became an urgent public health issue and the focus of many national policy discussions.

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Water Policy Program has developed a water affordability dashboard that allows users to assess affordability across different water utilities using flexible, self-selected parameters.
The IoW has Updated its Principles!
The IoW Principles were originally developed during the Aspen Institute Dialog Series on Water Data, and published in a 2017 report. In 2021, the IoW team and Advisory Board revised the principles to reflect lessons learned over the first 3 years of the project.
See what's Possible with Geoconnex
The NIEPS Water Policy Program developed River Runner with Linked Data to show how Geoconnex will make it easy to find water data. This tool builds on Sam Learner's River Runner for the USA, which lets users trace any river downstream, by adding points that provide access to data through Geoconnex landing pages.
New Data Story: PFAS Monitoring in NC
PFAS are a group of synthetic chemical compounds and emerging contaminants that have been found in water all over the country. IoW's new data story investigates monitoring efforts in NC and shows how better data management is the key to better policy decisions on PFAS in NC and across the country.