Delta Institute Commitment

The Delta Institute is a non-profit organization that creates, funds and implements programs that promote a healthy environment, a strong economy and thriving, vibrant communities. We work throughout the Great Lakes region that hosts the Earth’s largest source of freshwater. Our pledge is to design and implement sensible, replicable strategies that conserve freshwater resources in collaboration with businesses, industries, municipalities, homeowners, and others. We will help them conserve water and reduce water pollution through sustainability initiatives, green building, and energy efficiency efforts. We will help them comply with pollution- and waste-related regulations that lessen the burden on local watersheds. We will facilitate the Lake Michigan Forum and Lake Michigan Watershed Academy to make lake’s management planning process more inclusive, transparent and effective. We will partner with cities, states and regions as they search for green infrastructure solutions to combined sewer overflows, stormwater discharges, and other wet-weather water quality problems. And we will conduct our work in close partnership with our environmental, economic development, community development and financing and funding colleagues throughout the region.