About
Time for Positivity: Water news is dominated by negative stories about pollution, shortages, and looming crises. Gloomy coverage feeds pessimism and distracts from education about the positive developments, potential solutions, and success stories.
Spotlight on Solutions: There are many examples of uplifting projects and change-making people in water. waterloop shares these examples and highlights how challenges can be turned into opportunities for progress and provide models for others to follow.
Raising Awareness: waterloop presents conversations about water through videos, podcasts, and social media. Greater understanding of the importance of water and options to increase sustainability improves stewardship, management, and support for projects and policies.
Elevating Important Topics: Recent topics on waterloop include restoring waterways, community benefits from projects, safe drinking water, climate resilience, environmental justice, nature-based infrastructure, innovative finance, use of data and technology, and coastal issues.
waterloop grateful to be made possible in part by grants from
Spring Point Partners and the Walton Family Foundation.
The Team
Travis Loop
Founder and Producer
Travis Loop has 20 years of high-level experience in communications and media. He formerly directed water communications for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. and managed public affairs for EPA’s Chesapeake Bay restoration program in Annapolis, Md. Travis also served as the speechwriter and a communications manager for the Governor of Hawaii. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and editor.
Ellen Gilinsky
Treasurer
Baron Sekiya
Secretary
The Advisors
Joel Beauvais
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel
Environment, Health & Safety at Exelon
Emma Robbins
Navajo Water Project Director
DigDeep
George Hawkins
Founder and Executive Director
Moonshot Missions
Corrie Heck Scott
Director Global Communications
Providing Food and Water Sustainably
The Nature Conservancy
Micah Ragland
Director of Corporate Communications
DTE Energy
Dr. Wallace J Nichols
Founder
The Live Blue Foundation
Noah Sabich
Managing Director
Cimbria Capital
Felicia Marcus
Fellow
Stanford University
Water in the West Program
Nancy Stoner
President
Potomac Riverkeeper Network
Margaret Bowman
Program Director
Spring Point Partners
Dan Bena
Senior Consultant
Safe Water Network
Jeremy Orr
Attorney
Natural Resources Defense Council
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