Public Education Outreach and Participation funding was recently expanded by Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) to include a “Statewide Initiatives” category.  In creating the Statewide Initiatives category, the Water Plan serves as the main driver of the priorities noted in the PEPO Grant Criteria and Guidelines. Because the Water Plan outlines broad priorities, the PEPO workgroup along with CWCB have together outlined funding priorities for the Statewide Initiatives fund to help spur applicant ideas and guide program development.

Twenty-nine projects distributed across the state have been selected to receive financial and technical support with funding CAWA obtained from the Colorado Water Conservation Board and private donors. The drought resilience program was designed to provide seed funding to support early-stage projects with the potential to reduce water use, improve water management, and/or demonstrate drought resilience and adaptation. The end-goal is to identify projects that can be scaled up to a level that can keep Colorado agriculture as healthy and productive as possible under the hotter, drier conditions that have become more common.

This years conference “Snows, Flows, and Drought: Managing for Western Water Resilience” will be held June 1st and 2nd at Allbright Auditorium, Colorado Mountain College, Steamboat Springs CO.  This is a free event put on by Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, CMC, Center of Western Weather and Water Extremes, Steamboat Ski and Resort Corporation.    More Information to come closer to the event. 

Water Education Colorado will be hosting it’s annual basin tour in the Yampa-White-Green Basin the week of June 5th.  

CWCB has compiled this database to serve as a tool for people and organization across Colorado to navigate all available funding opportunities for water projects in a single place.

Grant Committee Meeting

FY 2024 2st Cycle Application Review

April 12, 6:00 pm

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YWG Public Education Participation Outreach Committee Meeting

Wednesday May 10, 2023 at 4:00pm

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YWG Basin Roundtable Meeting

Wednesday May 10, 2023 at 6:00pm

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The 2023 University of Denver Water Law Symposium will be hosted in the University of Denver Sturm College of Law on April 14^th
Water Fluency: Experience Leads to Innovation in the Rocky Mountain West.
(Virtual attendance option available)

Water Law in a Nutshell seminar by Mr. Aaron Clay at the CNCC Rangely Campus Rector Hall, Room 102. 

This seminar covers all aspects of water law, including water rights; ditch rights; appropriation, perfection, limitations, attributes, abandonment, and enforcement of water rights.  Further discussions will include, groundwater, ditch owner rights and responsibilities, ditch companies, public rights, and federal/interstate compacts.  

Cost $60 and credit given to Realtors, appraisers, and lawyers. 

The Governor announced this event at Colorado Water Congress and we have been busy putting together a plan. It has been over a decade since the last Drought Summit CWCB hosted in 2012. This event will focus on climate data, drought lessons learned and projects that are working to mitigate the impacts of drought and implement the Colorado Water Plan.  The two-day event will be held on May 31 and June 1 at History Colorado in Denver.

This years conference “Snows, Flows, and Drought: Managing for Western Water Resilience” will be held June 1st and 2nd at Allbright Auditorium, Colorado Mountain College, Steamboat Springs CO. This is a free event put on by Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, CMC, Center of Western Weather and Water Extremes, Steamboat Ski and Resort Corporation. More Information to come closer to the event.

Water Education Colorado will be holding its annual basin tour in the Yampa-White-Green Basin the week of June 5th.  

Please comeback for further information.  

The last C-9 summit was held in 2019. In keeping with actions in the Water Plan (e.g. Action 4.2) to support the impact of roundtables and to create greater alignment between the Board, IBCC and roundtables, the 2023 C-9 Summit will serve to support cross-basin collaboration. At the February IBCC meeting, the IBCC PEPO working group (thanks to Lisa Darling and Ken Brenner) agreed to help draft a roundtable-informed agenda.