Resource Hub
The Bayou City Waterkeeper Resource Hub is designed to empower communities with the knowledge and tools necessary to advocate for water justice in the Houston region. As a comprehensive platform, it offers community members, local agencies, and stakeholders access to educational materials, resources, and guidance to support their advocacy efforts and advance water justice.
Explore our resources by filtering relevant topics or types of materials that interest you. You can view all resources and refine your search below.
2023 Policy Agenda by Bayou City Waterkeeper
Check out this policy agenda from 2023 highlighting needs around water infrastructure funding and improvements, centering community voices, and green infrastructure investments.
5 Critical Wetland Mapper
Explore wetlands in your community with Bayou City Waterkeeper’s Wetland Mapper. This web map helps you locate key wetland areas and highlights the 5 Most Critical Wetlands identified by our team. Part of our Wetland Watch Hub, this tool supports efforts to protect these vital ecosystems.
5 Critical Wetland Story Map
Discover Houston’s five most critical wetlands and how we can protect them. This story map provides key background information on each site and highlights their importance to our environment. Explore these vital areas and learn what can be done to preserve them. This is also included in our Wetland Watch Hub.
Baytown Community Action Guide (English/Español)
Are you a Baytown resident dealing with a sewage issue? Looking for ways to take action or report sewage problems? This guide provides essential resources and steps to help you address sewage issues in your community. Use it to find out how to report an issue, contact the media, and get involved in advocacy efforts to improve sewage.
Community Engagement and Participatory Science Guide
This guide has been adapted from Boston Public Health Commission Community Engagement Toolkit, Washington State Department of Health Community Engagement Guide, and King County Community Engagement Continuum (2011). This guide serves to equip us with worksheets, tools, examples and resources to support and inform our community engagement and community based science process. Community engagement and communicating science is a two-way exchange of information, ideas and resources. Community engagement relies on seeking and creating equitable community led spaces, where we offer opportunities for communities to express their views and have a meaningful role in decision-making and inform our research practices. It should also consider the diversity of our communities, including culture and ethnicity, and seek to create an inclusive and accessible process. Effective engagement removes barriers for communities and woven in building trust. We recognize this work is challenging and complex. The rewards of successful public engagement, however, are immense and long lasting, fostering trust and community powered solutions that continue to further Bayou City Waterkeepers mission to ensuring clean water for our region.
FEMA Nature Based Solutions Flashcards
Looking for more examples of Nature Based Solutions? FEMA has provided and created definitions for different types of solutions that center nature.
Houston City Hall Public Comment Guide and Template
Are you interested in testifying to Houston City Hall, and need assistance preparing your testimony? Use this guide here to give you information on how to testify and for assistance with preparing your testimony.
Justice In the Sewers Brief: Demanding equity in Houston’s $2 billion sewage investment
This brief provides background about sanitary sewer infrastructure, along with sewage problems in Houston that led a court to order the City to invest $2 billion into sewage infrastructure through 2036. As the City marks the third year of this investment in April 2024, this policy brief offers nine sewage demands created with input from community interviews, outreach, and research, as well as organizational experience with the consent decree infrastructure
Justice in the Sewers Glossary (English/Español)
This resource was created to help with understanding around language for BCWK’s Justice in the Sewers work.
Justice in the Sewers Hub
Our Justice in the Sewers hub is an on-going hub to share information about the wastewater consent decree required Houston to invest $2 billion in sewer upgrades, following our investigation into over 9,300 sewage overflows affecting marginalized communities.This hub links in resources and maps related to BCWK’s Houston SSO work.
Justice in the Sewers Map
This interactive map, developed by Bayou City Waterkeeper in collaboration with the Diluvial Studies Lab at Rice University, visualizes City of Houston sanitary sewer overflow data alongside private sewer lateral overflow data. It provides a detailed look at where sewage overflows have occurred, highlighting the areas most impacted by these environmental challenges.
Justice in the Sewers: Sewage Issues in Pasadena and What We Can Do About Them
This resource provides history and context of sewage issues happening within the city of Pasadena.
Justice in the Sewers: Understanding Your Sewage System
This resource provides context to understanding sewage systems, impacts of SSOs, and how to identify sewage issues in your home.
Justicia en las alcantarillas informe: En busca de igualdad en la inversión de $2 mil millones de dólares en aguas residuales de Houston
Este informe proporciona información general sobre la infraestructura de alcantarillado sanitario, junto con los problemas de alcantarillado en Houston que llevaron a un tribunal a ordenar a la ciudad que invirtiera 2.000 millones de dólares en infraestructura de alcantarillado hasta 2036. A medida que la ciudad marca el tercer año de esta inversión en abril de 2024, este informe de política ofrece nueve demandas de alcantarillado creadas con el aporte de entrevistas comunitarias, divulgación e investigación, así como la experiencia organizativa con la infraestructura de alcantarillado.
Policy Recommendations for the Bayou City
Check out our policy resources and updates here!