The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program (WIFIA) accelerates investment in our nation’s water infrastructure by providing long-term, low-cost supplemental loans for regionally and nationally significant projects. The WIFIA program was established by the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014. This WestFAST-hosted webinar provided attendees with an overview of the WIFIA Program, […]
This WestFAST-hosted webinar updated attendees on the recent development of WaDE and demoed its new 2.0 system. This demo showed examples of dashboard data queries to water rights and aggregate water use data for many states across the western United States. The presentation highlighted coordination with the USGS Water-Use Data and Research Program and collaboration […]
This WestFAST-hosted webinar briefed attendees on the multiple program components of WaterSMART, including their differences and the general timelines for funding opportunity announcements – when, how long, awards, etc. A demonstration of the WaterSMART Data Visualization Tool was also provided; and plans for sharing recent WaterSMART accomplishments was discussed, along with new features of the […]
This WestFAST-hosted webinar briefed attendees on an interactive, web services-based website dashboard displaying information on nationwide power plant activity, including: up-to-date monthly electricity generation, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions; maps and charts of aggregated data at the facility, watershed (HUC-8), county, and state scales; projections to 2050; a demonstration of the dashboard, showing examples […]
The OpenET team presented an overview of the project goals and technical approach, highlighting early use cases and applications, provided a demonstration of the user interface, and hosted a discussion for general feedback and questions.
The Fall 2020 (194th) Meetings were held as a virtual event October 13-15, 2020. Schedule of Meetings /Agenda Tuesday, October 13 Time (MDT) Meeting Adjournment 1:30 pm Water Quality Committee […]
In this WestFAST hosted webinar, participants heard more about the Prize Competitions Program, including an introduction Prize Competitions, an overview of the Program’s portfolio of activities, and a summary of the Program’s outcomes. For the Bureau of Reclamation’s PowerPoint click here.
This WestFAST hosted webinar provided participants with an overview of the program, including a sampling of partnerships and projects to date.
This WestFAST hosted webinar brought together salinity experts who shared their knowledge and experiences addressing salinity in the western United States. For WestFAST’s PowerPoint click here.
The US Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has monitored snowpack and issued seasonal water supply forecasts (WSFs) for close to 100 years. Today, NRCS operates the SNOTEL network and the largest stand-alone operational WSF system in the American West. Here, we introduce the next generation of this WSF system. The resulting prediction […]