By Meg McGuire | May 4, 2025
A healthy handful of people involved in the Water Table gathered in Philadelphia on Tuesday to hear about two topics. One was looking at the federal landscape — and what can be done about those headwinds — the other was an update on the Water Table.
The host for the event was the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Its executive director, Kathy Klein, welcomed all and introduced the key leadership for the Water Table, which includes: Klein; Kelly Anderson, director of Philadelphia Water Department’s Office of Watersheds; Skelly Holmbeck, executive director of the Water Resource Association of the Delaware River Basin; Emily Goldstein, senior environmental planner at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission; and Amy Verbofsky, manager, Healthy and Resilient Communities, also at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
Work-force development is key for the Water Table project right now, and Holmbeck gave an overview of how that might work to connect the people in the water world who are looking for talent at all levels: from the people who might not be college-educated and are interested in being trained; to where could someone could find an internship; to the many different colleges and universities in the watershed who are doing research in the field
Holmbeck envisioned the hub as a sort of connective tissue to tie together the human community across the watershed. Its debut is planned for the fall.
Read the full article in Delaware Currents here.