THE GREAT LAKES PRESERVE BLOG

Welcome to PRESERVE! We are excited that you are considering joining our community, working together to enhance utility resilience across...

We at PRESERVE hope to center our practices around addressing your challenges and sharing your successes! Please consider and discuss the questions below with your team and Moonshot will set up a meeting to review together: Questions to discuss with your team: What active projects or initiatives are you working on right now? What are your greatest strengths as a utility? What’s going well at your utility? What are you most concerned about? What things would you like to accomp

A public link can be found here , but check your email for our December 2025 newsletter on "Looking forward, Looking back." Links in this month's issue:  December blog: https://www.moonshotmissions.org/greatlakespreserve/post/looking-forward-looking-back-with-the-moonshot-missions-facilitation-team Communicating the True Cost of Water: https://store.awwa.org/product/44361 Michigan EGLE PFAS Summit: https://egle.idloom.events/2025-PFAS-Summit What Operators Need to Know:...

2025 has been a big year for the Great Lakes PRESERVE! We finally got the community of practice up and running, hosted our first in-person meetings, and have worked to create an online community as well as relevant and timely events and resources for our incredible members.  We wanted to start our blog with a recap/reminder of where we started, in terms of advice and goals from each of our Moonshot team members.  George Hawkins, CEO and Sponsor of Great Lakes PRESERVE, had th

A public link can be found here , but check your email for our November 2025 newsletter on "Leveraging AI." Theme article: https://www.moonshotmissions.org/greatlakespreserve/post/leveraging-ai-with-amanda-willis-and-gigi-karmous-edwards Leveraging AI event notes: https://www.moonshotmissions.org/greatlakespreserve/group/preserve-all-members/discussion/42bb007b-5f69-4bc9-a6ae-715253ab7ba1 Lake Erie Grant: https://lakeerie.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/24c7ec02-7e99-4dc3-8d7b-6

Our theme article features the wisdom provided by our two speakers during our October 15 event, “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence: Smart Solutions for Institutional Knowledge Retention in Water Utilities.” Gigi Karmous-Edwards, President, Karmous Edwards Consulting and Amanda Willis, Senior Water and Wastewater Specialist, The Water Tower, explored effective use of artificial intelligence (AI). Our blog post covers their overview of AI, exciting use cases and reports, and i

A public link can be found here , but check your email for our October 2025 newsletter on "Building a Community of Practice." Links in...

This month’s theme article comes to us from Michael Mucha, PRESERVE chair and Principal at Moonshot Missions. Michael has worked as an...

A public link can be found here , but check your email for our September 2025 newsletter on "Retaining Institutional Knowledge." Links in...

We continued our conversations this month with Andy Kricun, Principal at Moonshot Missions and former Executive Director and Chief...

A public link can be found here , but check your email for our August 2025 newsletter on "Building Public Trust." Links Listed: 8/22...

Our August newsletter theme is “Gaining Public Trust,” explored in an article below by Andy Kricun, Principal at Moonshot Missions and...

The Great Lakes PRESERVE team had an amazing utility research intern this summer in Cynthia Jacobson, a rising senior at Princeton...

Our next spotlight comes from our visionary chair and CEO of Moonshot Missions, George Hawkins. George says that the vision for...

Keep an eye on this page for additional upcoming events for our members, or write to our forum if you'd like to suggest other ideas for...

Our next spotlight comes from Nick Meurer, our Technical Expert who brings his 13 years of experience in wastewater treatment operations...

Michael Mucha with PRESERVE manager Rania Bashar out in the field! Michael, PRESERVE’s Chair, brings his skills as an educator and...

Rania Bashar, PRESERVE’s manager, brings core expertise on nutrient removal and recovery, converting waste streams to value streams,...

Alex McPhail is a generous volunteer both for Moonshot and the PRESERVE team, who brings a wealth of experience in  issues facing...

Andy Kricun, our resident Subject Matter Expert, takes inspiration for PRESERVE from his long experience both in leadership positions...