Goals and Actions

Past Goals Setting Efforts

• 2011 First LID Workshop

  • Summary: Workshop March 15, 2011 | Pima County, AZ 

  • Adopted Goals in PAG Regional Council Resolution: Guidance manual, Case Studies

  • Desert based needs

• 2015 LID Conference

  • Broadened regional partners and included non-profits, Added goals of Return on Investment Studies

  • EPA informed goal-setting

  • This workshop grew to include regionwide representatives, celebrated progress on the 2011 goals, and set new objectives. See PAG's Youtube page or digital library for resources.

• 2017-19  LIDWG Review Meetings

  • Expanded to include more creek, heat, green streets, and social vulnerability connections

• 2023 Joint LID/GI Forum with Santa Cruz Watershed Collaborative and Sustainable Cities Network

  • Merged goals with SCWC One Water Goals

  •  April 6 Agenda and Results (See Conference Day)

• 2025 LIDWG Survey and Focus Group 

  • Added maintenance, workforce development, community-centered collaborations, and private sector involvement, add more practitioners. Bringing back more direct deliverables with an on-the-ground emphasis.

  • Presentation 

Related Events:

Local coordination occurs through other means over time of course.  Most recently with the national 2024 One Water Summit in Tucson with US Water Alliance and 2022 in a workshop with the University of Arizona on pursuing the creation of an EPA Stormwater Center of Excellence. Past efforts by various rainwater harvesting leaders locally, have included hosting the international ARCSA Rainwater Catchment Conference in Tucson in 2006, a PAG and Tucson Water-led GI Mapping priorities workshop,  and the Arid LID Conference with new Mexico partners in Tucson in 2012 (the latter of which established LID/GSI research goals for the region) and many more LID focussed forums.

Recent Meeting Topics

2020-2024 meetings have focussed on collaborative goals such as:

• GSI Workforce development

• GI Mx interface with People Experiencing Homelessness 

• Reviewing Green Infrastructure Guidance for high water users (focus on HOAs)

• Standardizing GI Standard Details and Specifications for Widespread Adoption

• The local story of grassroots and municipal adoption of water harvesting 

• Stormwater recharge evaluations for both shallow groundwater ecosystems and municipal aquifer supply

• Environmental Justice approach 

• Sharing messaging and imagery for regional recognition in Signage (for education and to secure GSI investments through enhanced maintenance)

• Annual UArizona Research roundup presentations