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Little Library of Water
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The Little Library of Water provides residents with an engaging way to interact with our watershed, connecting audiences across the city with the water that shapes life in New Orleans.

New Orleans Building Hardening Guide
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This guide will walk you through some ways to protect your buildings from high winds, flooding, fire, winter weather, and hail. These techniques range from very minor to…

Business Survival Handbook
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A business owner’s guide to survival before and after a disaster: Making sure that key operations can continue immediately following a disaster, as well as preventing interruptions when possible, is…

Post-Katrina Levee System Sinking
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Homeowners impacted by the 2016 floods and state officials continue to wait on new legal guidance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on whether loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration will count against Restore Louisiana recovery grants…

Lasting environmental impacts from government shutdown
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Homeowners impacted by the 2016 floods and state officials continue to wait on new legal guidance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on whether loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration will count against Restore Louisiana recovery grants…

Proposed wetland protection rollbacks and other water policy news
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The Trump Administration’s proposal to roll back Clean Water Act regulations could impact Louisiana wetlands, according to Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy Director Mark Davis. By narrowing the EPA’s definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS), only wetlands that are adjacent to a major body of water or connected to a major waterway would be federally protected…

National Climate Assessment, Disaster Recovery Reform, and other water policy news
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The release of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which examines climate change science and impacts across the US, focused on the August 2016 flooding in the Baton Rouge area as evidence of climate change impacts. The damage estimates from that storm came to $10.1 billion, and…

Mapping sea level rise by Congressional district & other water policy news
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On the heels of the midterm election, we wanted to highlight a tool from the Union of Concerned Scientists, showing what’s at stake in coastal congressional districts…

Lessons from Hurricane Florence & other water policy news
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This past month, we watched our neighbors in the Carolinas face down Hurricane Florence. The storm caused widespread damage, including at least 45 reported deaths, thousands of displaced residents, more than 1,000 still remaining in shelters, and damage anticipated in the…

Water Workforce, A Year of SWBNO & other water policy news
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​​​​​Here are the latest news stories in local and national water policy for September. Scroll to the bottom for a…