City of Milwaukee set to be our newest member city.
17 April 2009
The City of Milwaukee are set to engage in the UN Global Compact Cities Programme and tackle the issue of improving the water quality in the City of Milwaukee and the surrounding region.
Professor Paul James, Director, UNGC Cities Programme will visit the Local Secretariat (project team) in late April, 2009.
In March, 2008, Milwaukee representatives met with members of the International Secretariat to discuss how the government, private and civil sectors could work collaboratively to tackle the complexities of water management. Since then, the City of Milwaukee have demonstrated their commitment and established an entire governance framework to engage the government, private and civil sectors of the community.
The project will be led by the Milwaukee 7 Water Council and will adopt the goals set forth by the new University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Science, with a focus on maintaining and impoving water quality system dynamics, health and sustainabilty, freshwater and technology and policy and management.
The Water Council is aligning the regional freshwater research community and water-related industries to establish the Milwaukee Region as the global capital for freshwater research, economic development and education by:
- Establishing the Milwaukee Region as the global “water hub”
- Providing outreach to water companies looking to move into the area
- Advancing water-related industry, research and business opportunities.
