Colorado WaterWise News

Calling all homeowners and gardeners in Colorado!

Lyndsey Lucia — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:43:37 GMT

Colorado State University Extension is thrilled to offer Landscape Like You Live Here, a new 6-week spring series designed to help you create thriving, sustainable landscapes wherever you live in Colorado.

Dates: Tuesdays, April 7 – May 12
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Format: Live & Recorded Webinars
Cost: $150 (includes recordings)

Gain practical guidance on designing your outdoor space, selecting trees, shrubs, and native plants, cultivating seasonal blooms, and more!

Register today: https://col.st/r53iw

WaterNow and Pacific Institute Project Accelerator

Lyndsey Lucia — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:19:21 GMT

Project Accelerator: Catalyzing Water Efficiency Investments through Debt Financing

WaterNow and Pacific Institute are excited to announce that they are now accepting applications for the new Catalyzing Water Efficiency Investments through Debt Financing Project Accelerator. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2026. The Accelerator provides 250 hours of pro-bono technical assistance to public drinking water providers in California and Colorado to increase the reach and impact of their water efficiency programs. Learn more here.

Fighting Fire with Funding: New Wildfire Resilience Financing Dashboard

Lyndsey Lucia — Fri, 23 May 2025 17:57:59 GMT

WaterNow, One Water Econ, and The Water Center at Penn recently launched the Colorado Wildfire Resilience Financing Dashboard. This free resource helps water managers make the business case and find long-term funding for nature-based watershed health and wildfire resilience strategies. The dashboard’s core resource is the interactive decision tool that gives users a customized feasibility assessment of:

Possible ways to finance utility-specific resilience projects,
Multiple benefits associated with those projects,
legal and accounting pathways that can enable the utility to finance upstream watershed health interventions, and
Whether partnerships are in place to help ensure success.

Check out the dashboard! Questions or feedback? Reach out to WaterNow’s Policy Director Caroline Koch at cak@waternow.org.