Growing Water Smart
Colorado Workshop: Spring 2023
Colorado Growing Water Smart: Integrated Water and Land Use Planning Workshop
When: May 8-10, 2023
Where: YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO
Application Deadline: Closed
City and town officials, water providers and planners can increase sustainability and create water smart communities even as populations grow. The right tools, knowledge and plans make a big difference.
The Growing Water Smart program introduces communities to the full range of communications, public engagement, planning, and policy implementation tools to realize their watershed health and community resiliency goals.
Through Growing Water Smart, Colorado communities can learn how they can integrate land use and water planning.
Offered in partnership with the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy and Northern Water.
California Workshop: Summer 2023
Colorado Growing Water Smart: Integrated Water and Land Use Planning Workshop
When: June 14-16, 2023
Where: San Bernardino, CA
Application Deadline: Closed
City and town officials, water providers and planners can increase sustainability and create water smart communities even as populations grow. The right tools, knowledge and plans make a big difference.
The Growing Water Smart program introduces communities to the full range of communications, public engagement, planning, and policy implementation tools to realize their watershed health and community resiliency goals.
Through Growing Water Smart, Colorado communities can learn how they can integrate land use and water planning.
Offered in partnership with the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, CivicWell, and Water Education for Latino Leaders.
Colorado Workshop: Fall 2023
Colorado Growing Water Smart: Integrated Water and Land Use Planning Workshop
When: October 2023
Where: Grand Junction, CO
Application Deadline: Opens in May 2023
City and town officials, water providers and planners can increase sustainability and create water smart communities even as populations grow. The right tools, knowledge and plans make a big difference.
The Growing Water Smart program introduces communities to the full range of communications, public engagement, planning, and policy implementation tools to realize their watershed health and community resiliency goals.
Through Growing Water Smart, Colorado communities can learn how they can integrate land use and water planning.
Offered in partnership with the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy and the Colorado River District.
Arizona Workshop: Fall 2023
Arizona Growing Water Smart: Integrated Water and Land Use Planning Workshop.
When: Fall/Winter 2023
Where: Phoenix, AZ
Eligibility: Arizona counties and municipalities
Costs: The workshop is free. Participants cover their own travel. Some meals & lodging are provided.
Write to us at growingwatersmart@sonoraninstitute.org with questions.
The impacts of a hotter and drier climate in Arizona have created significant uncertainty about water availability in the coming decades. Falling levels in the Colorado River reservoirs and groundwater overdraft conditions present challenges to balancing water needs with available water supplies requiring local jurisdictions to reevaluate water issues and to assume new leadership roles.
The Growing Water Smart program introduces communities to the full range of communications, public engagement, planning, and policy implementation tools to realize their watershed health and community resiliency goals.
Through Growing Water Smart, Arizona communities can learn how they can integrate land use and water planning.
Growing Water Smart Technical Assistance
All past workshop participants are eligible for follow-up technical assistance to support the implementation of their action plans.
The application period is open until May 1st, 2023 for the first round of funding. Additional applications will be accepted for the second round of funding on a rolling basis until June 1st, 2023.
Arizona applications are open now.
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