Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Moisés Moreno-Rivera
Trust for Public Land
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Nieves Vazquez
Water For People
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Talia London
The Common Acre
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Newsha Ajami
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Olga Cano
HUD
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Portia Shepherd
Blackbelt Women Rising
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Direlle Calica
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
Roland Jones
CIS
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Alastair Bitsóí
Near the Water Media & Communications Group
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Olga Morales
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Jasmine Walker
Ohio Environmental Council
Aria Harris
TYLin
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Alai Reyes-Santos
Alaí Community Consulting
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Guadalupe Fernandez
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Shama Perveen
Ceres
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Heather Tanana
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Walt Walker
TYLin
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
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About Us
The Color of Water Initiative was created by the Water Hub to build voice and visibility for people of color in the water movement. Our goal is to connect reporters with a more diverse set of experts, and build capacity for these experts to elevate the stories of their communities, which have often been left out of conversations around water.
From water access and drought response in the West to lead pipes and PFAS pollution in the Great Lakes to recurring flooding and water infrastructure failures in the South, Color of Water members have deep expertise and first-hand experience on water challenges and solutions all across the country.
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300 Million Gallons of Raw Sewage and a Nation's Crumbling Pipes: America's Wastewater Infrastructure Is Failing in Real Time – Nature World News
Hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Potomac River after a major pipe collapse, exposing America’s worsening wastewater infrastructure crisis. [from

Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal. – ProPublica
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely

Millions of Americans still live without running water. What it will take to plug the water gap – Straight Arrow
Millions of Americans still lack running water, forcing families to haul every drop as aging systems, high costs and poor data tracking widen the gap.