This month the Water Center turns 5. The community-focused water policy and research center, based in the School of Arts & Sciences, has connections with students, staff, and faculty across the 12 schools at the University of Pennsylvania.

With its focus on sustainability and equity, Water Center executive director Howard Neukrug says the Center works to foster collaborations between academics, industry leaders, and communities to produce the next generation of water leaders. “Our projects have to ring a bell with the community,” says Neukrug, who, before coming to Penn in 2017, was commissioner and CEO of Philadelphia Water.

As a hub for water innovation and leadership, the Water Center has made strides towards these goals in its first five years.
“Five years is not a long time in the context of a university as old as Penn, but the Water Center’s done a tremendous amount in that time to really establish itself as one of the leading academic water centers in the country,” says Scott Moore, Water Center senior advisor and director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at Penn Global.

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