Water Utility Climate Alliance
Climate change is affecting the water sector by altering the water cycle and weather patterns. Extreme events such as droughts, heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires are increasing in severity and frequency, posing critical risks to drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities.
The Water Utility Climate Alliance (WUCA) advances climate change adaptation, planning, and decision-making to ensure that water utilities, and the communities they serve, can thrive in the face of these emerging challenges.
WUCA leverages collective utility experiences to develop leading practices in climate change adaptation and mitigation that are actionable, equitable, and serve as a model for others.We collaborate, with each other and our partners, to enable water utilities to respond to climate change impacts on utility functions and operations to protect our water systems today and into the future.
2025 Work Plan
2024 Annual Report
Member Utilities
Leadership
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Executive Chair: Angela Licata, New York City Department of Environmental Protection
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Executive Vice-Chair: Marc Cammarata, Philadelphia Water Department
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Staff Chair: Alan Cohn, New York City Department of Environmental Protection
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Staff Vice Chair: Julia Rockwell, Philadelphia Water Department
History
In January 2007, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission hosted the first national Water Utility Climate Change Summit, which was attended by more than 200 water and wastewater utility executives, government officials, climate change experts and environmental leaders. The purpose of the gathering was to help participants better understand the impacts of climate change on water-related infrastructure and water resource supplies.
Shortly after the summit, the Water Utility Climate Alliance (WUCA) was formed to provide leadership and collaboration on climate change issues affecting the country's water agencies. Today, the organization comprises 12 of the nation's largest water providers. WUCA members supply drinking water for more than 50 million people throughout the United States.