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Tag Archives: A National Dialogue for the Future of America’s Waterway
Mississippi River Clean Water Depends on Citizen Support
Last December, a U.S. District Court ruled the Environmental Protection Agency has broad discretion in its application of its Clean Water Act. The upshot: the EPA’s CWA places primary responsibility on states to protect water and the federal government isn’t responsible … Continue reading
Mississippi River Stakeholders: Let’s Get Organized
INFRASTRUCTURE: A word that’s finally getting much needed attention. What will all this attention mean for the Mississippi River? Specific interest groups are already organizing. While the Mississippi River may seem like an automatic recipient for strong infrastructure upgrades, based … Continue reading
Mississippi River as a Connector
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Parag Khanna, a senior fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, outlines how social and economic development increasingly pivots around infrastructure corridors rather than arbitrary boundaries like … Continue reading
Launching A Unified Mississippi River
What if it was possible to agree on a unified approach to the Mississippi River? I know, it’s a BIG river and a complicated one. It’s different on the upper end and the lower end. There are so many stakeholders … Continue reading
Imagining the Internet & the Mississippi River
The Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center just released their 2014 predictions for the world’s internet interaction by 2025. Their findings: the internet will be invisibly interwoven into people’s daily lives all over the globe. There will be … Continue reading
Great News for the Mississippi River at Mayor’s Meeting
Great News: Over fifty mayors from Mississippi River cities and towns have landed a Memorandum of Common Purpose with the Corps of Engineers. Announcing this on Thursday, June 27 at a St. Cloud, Minn. meeting of Mississippi River Cities and … Continue reading
Mississippi River Commission Should Engage with the Whole River
As the sun grows warmer and the Mississippi River Commission prepares for its annual high-water inspection trip, we continue, as a country, to ponder the Mississippi River and how such a large and valuable water resource should be managed. Complicating … Continue reading
The River’s Ready for Civic Engagement… Are You?
The rules for gaining public support for an idea, cause or product have changed dramatically. Just ask chief marketing officers for Fortune 500 companies, candidates for public office and non-profit directors. These changes have important implications for integrated approaches to … Continue reading
Memphis Commercial Appeal Editorial Stresses Fresh Approach to Water
“Times change and our understanding and approach to managing rivers needs to change with them.” Mark Davis, Director, Institute for Water Resources Law and Policy, Tulane University Law School
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Top 10 Reasons to use Civic Engagement for the Mississippi River
A definition is in order: civic engagement engenders collective action to identify and address issues of public concern. And, perhaps most relevant to America’s Waterway and the civic engagement we are planning: it instills a personal sense of responsibility to uphold obligations to a community.
