• The Second Colorado River Basin Data and Modeling Roundtable: Webinar

    The Western States Water Council is hosting this second roundtable as a follow-up to the first “Internet of Water Roundtable: Colorado River Basin,” organized by the Aspen Institute and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions in January 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Aspen Institute’s Dialogue Series on water data led to its report, […]

  • The National Water Reuse Action Plan

    This WestFAST-hosted webinar provided attendees (WSWC states and WestFAST member agencies) with an overview of the Plan – including strategic themes and key actions to be implemented across the water user community.

  • WSWC Summer 2020 (193rd) Meetings

    The WSWC Summer (193rd) Meetings were held virtually on July 22, 2020 due to COVID-19. BRIEFING MATERIALS (Download) July 22, 2020 Summer Meeting Briefing Materials (15.12  MB) MINUTES Virtual Executive Committee Minutes – June 25, 2020 Virtual Water Resources Committee Minutes_July 22, 2020 Virtual Water Quality Committee Minutes – July 22, 2020 Virtual Legal Committee Minutes […]

  • EPA’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Program

    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, […]

  • Update on the Western States Water Council Water Data Exchange (WaDE) 2.0

    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 […]

  • The Bureau of Reclamation’s WaterSMART Program

    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 […]