Before 2005, there were no industry-wide concentrate management performance standards for the types of desalination technologies identified in "Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap" (joint authors were Sandia National Labs and the Bureau of Reclamation). Additionally, brackish and sea-water desalination and concentrate management regulations varied significantly from state-to-state, region-to-region, and internationally, in terms of both field testing and monitoring requirements. For example, the best management practices recommended for concentrate disposal in one state may not be allowed in an adjoining state. In other cases, receiving water quality criteria either do not exist, or may require a concentrate stream's quality to be significantly better than the quality of the receiving water. In 2005, several organizations including the American Water Works Association, Ground Water Protection Council, Water Reuse Foundation, and the Environmental Protection Agency agreed to work cooperatively through an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)-Environmental and Water Resources Institute's (EWRI) task committee to develop a consensus-based assessment and provide recommendations and guidance on sound and commonly acceptable concentrate management practices for new and existing desalination and water reuse facilities of all sizes. Since that overall effort was not funded by outside sources of ASCE; the EWRI task committee (TC) has strived to be converted to a technical committee under the Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Council of EWRI of ASCE. The TC began working to establish appropriate writings about case studies on concentrate management projects and other activities in desalination during 2006–2008. A two session track was held in Tampa in May 2007 along with a TC of CM in Desalination meeting that established outline material for future documents. Another EWRI Congress session was held in Honolulu in May 2008 and in Kansas City in May 2009. At the beginning of FY09, the new Concentrate Management in Desalination (CM in Desal) technical committee volunteered to develop a EWRI Monograph on case studies prepared in its ASCE eRoom by individual members of its four practice area subcommittees and using presentations at the 2007–2009 EWRI Congress tracks. This paper provides an overview of the goals, objectives, schedule, and progress to date of this overall long-term effort. The task committee's officers for FY 2010 will use the task committee proposal and some accomplishments to date of these activities for the basis of this paper at the 2010 EWRI Congress in Providence, RI.