Our Vision

Safe, resilient and affordable water systems.

The Bay Area One Water Network advances safe and resilient urban water systems in the San Francisco Bay Area. It serves as a common forum for interaction across organizational, political, and jurisdictional boundaries to advance holistic water stewardship through collaborative planning, joint fact-finding, and capacity building.

Climate change poses major challenges to the Bay Area’s water supplies. Less snowpack, more erratic precipitation, and rising seas expose the vulnerabilities of our current water infrastructure systems. The Bay Area One Water Network helps innovate solutions to these challenges by bringing together diverse regional stakeholders from water supply and wastewater agencies, stormwater groups, regulatory agencies, city and regional planning groups, businesses, universities, research organizations, community-based organizations and environmental advocacy groups. Through focused workshop discussions and synthesis reports, we aim to provide decision-makers with the contextual information, tools, and research roadmaps that can support the development of 21st century water infrastructure.

our goals

Innovative water solutions for a thriving Bay Area.

1.      Enable reliable, affordable, and resilient provision of essential water-related services (including safe drinking water, wastewater management, flood control, and habitat protection) to all Bay Area residents in the face of extreme weather and other environmental stressors.

2.      Enable planning and implementation of multi-benefit infrastructure that can meet a variety of community needs, including for drinking water, wastewater management, recreation, wildlife habitat, flood risk reduction, and a healthy San Francisco Bay ecosystem.

3.      Share knowledge and build capacity to implement collaborative, cost-effective, sustainable, and locally-supported strategies and solutions for effectively stewarding water resources in response to current and future challenges.

4.      Advance innovation and adoption of best practices in holistic One Water planning, infrastructure, finance, and governance, including but not limited to multi-benefit approaches, water reuse, advanced water treatment and technologies, nature-based solutions, and regulatory innovation.