The goals of the workshop, titled “Improving Access to Information for Decision Making: A Partnership with the Water Utility, Urban Planning, and NOAA Communities,” included:

• Bring potential partners together from the water utility (e.g., WERF, WaterRF, AMWA, WEF, and AWWA) and urban planning communities (Am Planning Assoc) to discuss vision and goals for a collaboration that expands access to and utilization of NOAA climate information, forecasts, tools, and education in decision-making,
• Review examples of current successful Federally-hosted websites such as Climate.gov, Drought.gov and Digital Coasts and discuss opportunities to leverage one or more of those sites, and
• Develop a pathway and/or plan for future collaborations.