Resource Library
Welcome to the River Network Resource Library!
Search through hundreds of publications, recorded webinars, newsletters, tools, and templates to support your water work. Explore specific topics using the icons below, or if you’re not sure what you need, use the search bar. Type in keywords like “strategic planning,” “State Revolving Fund,” or “data collection.” The resources included here are intended to help you advance your work and spark innovation and new ideas.
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Featured Resources
- Building Blocks of Trust – how community organizations and utilities can work together.
- Colorado SMP – everything you’d ever need to know about stream management planning in Colorado.
- Equitable Infrastructure Toolkit – learn to advocate for equitable water infrastructure in your community.
- Tools for Equitable Climate Resilience – how to perform community-led research and support local leaders to advance climate resilience.
- Waste in Our Waters: A Community Toolkit for Aquatic Litter Removal – one-stop shop for building a litter removal program.
- The Clean Water Act Owner’s Manual – the quintessential, transformational tool on how YOU can use the CWA to protect your waters.
- State Revolving Fund Advocacy Toolkit – a comprehensive guide for advocates looking to get up to speed on the SRF process.
- Effective Organizations – a five-part learning series on everything from board governance, to volunteer management, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and more.
Looking for information on specific state-level water policies? Explore the State Policy Hub!
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Federal Budget Toolkit: Federal Funding for Clean and Ample Water
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: Tools and TemplatesRiver Network originally developed this Federal Budget Toolkit in 2017 to support communities and watershed groups in fighting back against proposed federal budget cuts that threatened to harm local waterways. The updated toolkit provides information… View Resource ›
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Federal Budget Toolkit: 3 Step Guide
Program: Drinking Water, Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Tools and TemplatesOur voices are critically important and decision makers need to hear how important federal programs and agencies are to our communities and watersheds. This 3-Step Guide outlines how we can let our senators, representatives and the Administration know… View Resource ›
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River Voices July 2017: 2017 River Heroes
Program: Drinking Water
Resource Type: Publications, River Rally Content, River VoicesTable of Contents River Hero Margaret Frisbie River Hero Denny Caneff River Hero David Sligh River Hero David Deen River Hero Angie Rosser In this Issue This issue of River Voices features our 2017 River Heroes – Angie Rosser, Denny Caneff, David Deen,… View Resource ›
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River Voices April 2017: Water Equity And Civic Engagement
Program: Drinking Water, Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: Publications, River VoicesTable of Contents Building Power for Water Justice in California’s San Joaquin Valley by Jenny Rempel and Susana De Anda Detroiters’ Fight for Affordable Water Access Has Lessons for America’s Future by Monica Lewis-Patrick Green Leaders Step Into Elec… View Resource ›
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River Voices January 2017: Integrated Water Management
Program: Water Law & Policy, Water Science
Resource Type: Publications, River VoicesTable of Contents Integrated Water Management—How We Got Here and Where We’re Headed by Lynn Broaddus San Francisco’s Non-Potable Water Program: From Pilot to Policy by Paula Kehoe Smart Water Management Supports People and Nature Thriving Together by… View Resource ›
Supporting Stream Management Plans in Colorado
Program: Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Tools and Templates____________________________________________________________ 2020 News Applications for River Network assistance to develop a CWCB grant application for Stream Management Plans in 2020 are now up. More information can be found in the “Resource Files”… View Resource ›
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DEI webinar series: Grappling with Unconscious Bias for More Inclusive Water Protection & Restoration (part 2 of 2) – 6/1/2017
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarThis interactive 90-minute webinar is the second in a 2-part series and builds on the first session (recorded HERE). Session 2 explores the concept of unconscious bias and how it prevents us from doing our best diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Th… View Resource ›
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DEI webinar series: The What, Why, and How of Relevancy, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (part 1 of 2)
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarOur work to protect and restore the rivers and other waters exists within the context of a society that is increasingly diverse. Nearly 40% of the U.S. population are people of color, and predictions suggest that by the mid-2040s non-whites and people… View Resource ›
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Strengthening your Advocacy and Community Organizing
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Resource Type: WebinarFor a limited time you will find a PDF copy of the March 16, 2017 Webinar: Strengthening your Advocacy and Community Organizing. Regardless of political affiliations, the general public remains interested and committed to having clean and ample water f… View Resource ›
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Social Marketing Webinar
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was recorded on April 2014 and provides an overview of social marketing as a framework for changing behaviors and influencing social change. In this session, you’ll be introduced to a 10 step planning model for designing and managing a soc… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Strengthening Flood Resilience Through Integrated Water Management
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarAt scales ranging from the neighborhood and city to the watershed and basin, some communities are doing the work of breaking down the silos in water management to increase sustainability and equitably maximize benefits across the community and watershe… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Water Scarcity as a Catalyst for Integrated Water Management – Creating Multiple Benefits for Your Community and River
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarAt scales ranging from the neighborhood and city to the watershed and basin, some communities are doing the work of breaking down the silos in water management to increase sustainability and equitably maximize benefits across the community and watershe… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Brownfields for Beginners – What you need to know to kickstart your “Brownfield-for-Community-Benefit” project
Program: Drinking Water, Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on Aug. 02, 2016 Are you working to reclaim urban waterways while occasionally bumping up against waterfront properties home to former industrial uses? Ever wonder how to get a g… View Resource ›
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River Voices Oct 2016 Issue: Science for River Advocates
Program: Water Science
Resource Type: Publications, River VoicesTable Of Contents Landscape and Social Principles Related to River Restoration by Robert Naiman, Courtland Smith, and Bruce Rieman Dancing with Scientists to Protect Rivers by Mary Freeman New Approaches and New Platforms Catalyzing Environmental Resto… View Resource ›
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Integrated Water Management
Program: Water Law & Policy
Resource Type:Integrated Water Management – what is it and what does it mean? Driven by increasing costs, pollution, conflicts over water and the need to achieve multiple benefits, some communities, at scales ranging from the neighborhood and city to the watershed… View Resource ›
