Gearing up for an early 2012 Kick-off, the US BCSD is meeting with business leaders in Southern Louisiana to encourage participation in a Water Synergy Project planned for the New Orleans to Baton Rouge Mississippi River Corridor. In this new project, our collaborative approach is aimed at bringing watershed users together to develop sustainable water management practices that foster mutually beneficial solutions rather than competitive tensions. Funding for the project has been provided by ConocoPhillips, Entergy, and the WalMart Foundation.

The project goals are to: achieve tangible water synergy benefits for participating companies and their communities; establish a long-term water collaboration plan for this region, and develop a replicable process that can be applied in other regions. For more information about the project, or if your company or organization has operations in the Southern Louisiana region that would interested in participating, please contact Susan Fernandes at fernandes@usbcsd.org.