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WATER FUTURES
Wendy is President of Water Futures, where she and her team provide integrated solutions to complex water problems. With deep expertise across the spectrum of scientific, technological, political, regulatory, and financial aspects of the water sector, Wendy helps clients assess water risk, enhance water assets, and ensure water security. She applies a strategic lens to assessing water demand, supply, use efficiency, risk and opportunity, and developing integrated solutions across financial, policy, regulatory, and infrastructure functions to achieve resource and cost efficiencies.
Wendy understands corporate water risk and security, water rights, municipal and utility planning, land and water conservation, sustainable water use, wastewater planning, the water-energy nexus, and nutrient management related to wastewater, agriculture, and land use. Her clients include county governments, municipalities, land trusts, ranching associations, canal companies, non-profits, technology companies, private equity firms, private investors, and Fortune 500 companies.
CORE COMPETENCIES
• Water science, policy and planning
• Water risk, security, and strategy
• Water rights analysis
• Due diligence
• Water rights transactions
• Litigation support
• Expert witness
• Land and water conservation, easements, grant writing
• Water use efficiency
• Water footprinting
• Watershed management
• Wastewater planning
• Nutrient loading and management
• Water-energy nexus
• Hydrothermal energy
• Research team development and management
• Fundraising
• Teaching
• Mediation and facilitation