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Worked at Louisville Water since 2025
Protecting our employees and our community is a responsibility Louisville Water takes seriously. In fact, it’s part of our strategic business plan.
Within the last year, we strengthened our team by adding an emergency preparedness and operational resiliency coordinator. Meghan Brown joined Louisville Water in October 2025. Just weeks into her new role, the deadly UPS plane crash happened near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Brown quickly found herself in the middle of a real-life disaster response.
“It was an immersion learning opportunity to watch internal response unfold. Everyone [with Louisville Water] involved on the ground knew their role and performed without ego to assist the joint community response.”
Louisville Water personnel collected samples inside the crash zone to verify optimal water quality, inspected our infrastructure, and worked with customers impacted by the tragedy.
Brown said it gave her a better understanding of how and when each department works together. In her position, she’s tasked with developing strategic plans and ensuring employees are properly trained to respond.
“We face an increasing landscape of large-scale natural and man-made threats. I hope to help our staff be more prepared for themselves, their families, and essential response roles to keep our community safe and stable,” Brown explained.
She brings a variety of experience including GIS (geographic information systems), water consulting, grant writing, and most recently, she held a similar role at Louisville MSD.
“As I worked with federal grants and disaster reimbursement, operational gaps between what happens on the ground locally and how we plan to solve problems exposed educational and planning gaps,” Brown explained. “Helping staff identify their needs and plan to solve problems to strengthen our community is fulfilling.”
This community has long been home for Brown, and she learned early on the value of drinking water. Her family relied on a cistern for water.
“I remember seeing my dad look in to check on the water level, the water delivery truck, and its pipes filling the cistern back up. How and when we used water clicked with me from a young age,” she said.
Brown fondly recalls driving past the giant water storage tanks with her dad and him quizzing her on what was inside the tanks. It’s a friendly game she now plays with her own children.
“They say “water!” Or excitedly, “that’s where you work!” It feels like I was always meant to work in water,” she shared.
When Brown’s not working, you might find her listening to live music at Waterfront Wednesday or enjoying a local festival. She’s also an avid volunteer with her kids’ school and the Boys and Girls Haven. If you’ve ever attended the Annual Gravy Cup, you can thank Brown for her hard work planning behind the scenes and also Louisville Water for supplying the Louisville Pure Tap® to go with those savory biscuits!
