Looking for creative ways to finance your water recycling program? Register for the 34th Annual WateReuse Symposium, September 8-11 in San Diego, to learn how federal grants and loans, public–private partnerships, and other unique collaborations can move your project across the finish line.

Federal water agency officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Army Corps of Engineers will present in multiple sessions and answer your questions on how federal programs can help you launch or expand a water reuse project.

Learn how partnerships that include local agencies, state and federal agencies, and private business have created win-win projects that meet water management needs, offer security to business, and create economic opportunity. From public utilities collaborating with businesses to making the case for businesses to invest in onsite reuse systems, the Annual WateReuse Symposium provides case studies that serve as a blueprint on how you can get creative with project financing.

If you need to get up to speed quickly on more than just project financing, the Annual WateReuse Symposium opens with the Water Reuse 101 Workshop – an afternoon of sessions that will provide you with an introduction or refresher on the key elements of planning, operating, and managing a water reuse program. Spend Sunday afternoon with a group of experienced practitioners that will cover the ABCs of water recycling.

The Annual WateReuse Symposium is the premier conference devoted to water reuse policy, technology, research, and innovation. Advance registration ends August 23 so make your plans today.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a two-year budget deal that raises overall discretionary spending caps and will allow Congress to proceed with the FY 2020 appropriations process. The bill also extends the suspension of the federal debt limit. The Senate is expected to take up and pass the bill later this week. Once that happens, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) will hand down funding allocations to each of the Senate appropriations subcommittees, including the Energy and Water Subcommittee and the Interior-Environment Subcommittee, which fund the Bureau of Reclamation and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), respectively. Those Subcommittees are expected to begin work on their bills over the August recess, and will likely move quickly to mark them up once Members of Congress return in September. The caps agreed to in the two-year budget deal, while significantly higher than the caps that would have gone into effect in the absence of a deal, are lower than the “placeholder” caps that the House of Representatives used when writing its recently passed FY 2020 spending bills. This means that the House will have to re-write those spending bills with a smaller pot of money at its disposal. Decisions about how the money will be divvied up across federal programs are likely to be made behind closed doors.