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About the Event

June 5-6, 2025

The theme of the 2025 Next Generation Water Summit is "Increasing Resilience in an Unpredictable Climate".

The Next Generation Water Summit brings together the building and development community, water reuse professionals and water policymakers in a collaborative setting to share best practices and learn about innovative water conservation and water reuse techniques that can be used to comply with water conservation restrictions spreading across the southwest.

Agenda

time icon06/05/2025 08:45 am to
10:00 am

Keynote: Deb Haaland

speaker headshot Deb Haaland
Former US Secretary of the Interior
time icon06/05/2025 10:15 am to
11:15 am

OpenET: Data for Water Resilience

OpenET is transforming water management in the western U.S. by making satellite-based evapotranspiration data widely accessible. This session will explore how OpenET leverages remote sensing and extensive evapotranspiration (ET) data to fill critical information gaps, empowering water managers, farmers, and policymakers to make smarter, more sustainable water decisions.

speaker headshot Sara Larsen
CEO, OpenET
speaker headshot Doug Pushard
Founder
time icon06/05/2025 11:30 am to
12:15 pm

Envisioning a New Water Utility

speaker headshot Newsha Ajami
Chief Strategy And Development Officer For Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
time icon06/05/2025 01:00 pm to
01:45 pm

Do Smart Meters Save Water?

speaker headshot Suzy Kummer
Group Category Manager
time icon06/05/2025 01:00 pm to
01:45 pm

Right-Sizing, Water Auditing & Water Management: The Data Intersection

speaker headshot Christoph Lohr
Vice President of Technical Services and Research, IAPMO
time icon06/05/2025 02:00 pm to
03:45 pm

Panel: Conservation Initiatives: Voluntary to Mandatory

speaker headshot Cindy Rodriguez
Sr. Government Affairs Regional Manager, Southwest Florida Water Management District
speaker headshot Robin Grantham
Lead Communications Coordinator at Southwest Florida Water Management District
speaker headshot Mike Collignon
Executive Director
speaker headshot Katherine Jashinski
Supervising Engineer, Austin Water
time icon06/05/2025 02:00 pm to
02:45 pm

Resiliency and the NEW Comfort

speaker headshot Joaquin Murrieta-Saldivar
Cultural Ecologist Director, Watershed Management Group
time icon06/05/2025 03:00 pm to
03:45 pm

Panel: Missing Money: Funding for Water Conservation

speaker headshot Kevin Reidy
Senior State Water Efficiency Specialist at Colorado Water Conservation Board
time icon06/05/2025 03:00 pm to
03:45 pm

Panel: Energy-Water Nexus

speaker headshot Amanda Hatherly
CEO, Building Performance Institute
time icon06/05/2025 04:00 pm to
04:45 pm

Top 10 Ideas for Water Conservation Research Projects

time icon06/06/2025 08:45 am to
10:00 am

Friday Keynote: What I Dream

speaker headshot Mary Ann Dickinson
Director, Land and Water Policy for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
time icon06/06/2025 10:15 am to
11:15 am

Overcoming Barriers to Greywater Adoption

speaker headshot Laura Allen
Co-founder, Greywater Action
time icon06/06/2025 10:15 am to
11:15 am

Panel: Fight, Flight or Build it Right

speaker headshot Jacob Atalla
VP, Sustainability Initiatives at KB Home
speaker headshot Mike Collignon
Executive Director
time icon06/06/2025 11:30 am to
12:15 pm

Blackwater Best Practices

time icon06/06/2025 11:30 am to
12:15 pm

Innovative Product Panel

speaker headshot Alisha McFetridge
CEO, RainStick Shower
time icon06/06/2025 01:00 pm to
01:45 pm

IAPMO Z1398: Recirculating Shower Systems

speaker headshot Alisha McFetridge
CEO, RainStick Shower
time icon06/06/2025 01:00 pm to
01:45 pm

Solar Hot Water - Save Water, Save Energy

speaker headshot Rob Althouse

time icon06/06/2025 02:00 pm to
02:45 pm

IAPMO National Water Auditor Certification Program

speaker headshot Michelle Maddaus

speaker headshot Tony Marcello
VP, Training and Certification Development
time icon06/06/2025 02:00 pm to
02:45 pm

Building Infrastructure for the Water Reuse Revolution

As extreme drought continues across the U.S., cities are protecting public freshwater resources with an innovative new strategy: by having buildings recycle their own wastewater.

speaker headshot Paula Kehoe

speaker headshot Katherine Jashinski
Supervising Engineer, Austin Water
time icon06/06/2025 03:00 pm to
03:45 pm

EPA Pilot Cost Savings Study

speaker headshot Jonah Schein

speaker headshot Jesse Roach

time icon06/06/2025 04:00 pm to
04:45 pm

Closing Plenary

speaker headshot Glenn Schiffbauer
Executive Director
speaker headshot Mike Collignon
Executive Director
speaker headshot Doug Pushard
Founder
time icon06/06/2025 10:15 am to
11:00 am

New Mexico Legislative Update

time icon06/06/2025 11:30 am to
12:15 pm

Santa Fe City Update

speaker headshot Carol Romero-Wirth
Councilor
speaker headshot Christine Chavez

speaker headshot Jesse Roach

time icon06/06/2025 01:00 pm to
01:45 pm

Residential Green Building Code Update

speaker headshot Steve Onstad

speaker headshot Thomas Graham

time icon06/06/2025 02:00 pm to
02:45 pm

Water Ambassadors Initiative