Past events

Learn more about the ideas we have heard from community to address the challenges facing our drainage and wastewater systems.

A hand drops a marble into the top of a colorful marble run board.

Raindrop Run at the Seattle Design Festival. Photo by Trevor Dykstra.

Raindrop Run at the Seattle Design Festival

Shape Our Water invited visitors to celebrate our waters and soak up the sun at Lake Union Park at a colorful, interactive art installation about stormwater design solutions.

Convening for Water Resilience

At this two-day event, participants helped develop the goals for the Shape Our Water plan.

All illustrations by Natalie Dupille.

Fireside Series

Explore the 2021 Fireside Series: virtual events that invited community members and local and national leaders within the stormwater and wastewater management community to discuss how infrastructure investments could benefit Seattle, and what those benefits might look like.

Moving Waters

Hear local Tribal members offer their perspectives on water and their cultural relationships to water, rooted in historical methods of water management, and discuss how lessons from the past can inform our future.

January 28, 2021

Water Justice

In this program, watch speakers discuss how we can center communities of color to generate more environmental investments in neighborhoods that have been historically disinvested in.

February 11, 2021

Planning Our Water Future

Watch speakers discuss ways to build strong relationships between community and municipal government and explore ways to develop and sustain community engagement in public infrastructure planning.

March 25, 2021