• Save the Date: WSWC Workshop on Improving Skill for S2S Forecasting – May 17-19th, San Diego, CA

    The Western States Water Council and the California Department of Water Resources are cosponsoring a recurring workshop on improving the skill of long-range weather forecasts (sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) precipitation forecasting), to support water management decision-making.  The agenda will include lessons learned from recent years’ seasonal outlooks, updates on scientific research on sources of skill […]

  • 2017 Exchange Network National Meeting – May 16-18th, Philadelphia, PA

    The E-Enterprise and Exchange Network Interoperability and Operations Team will convene EN2017, the 2017 Exchange Network National Meeting, May 16-18, 2017, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia. The theme for this year’s Exchange Network meeting is “Innovation and Partnership.” During the Meeting, the EN will be exploring examples of: How innovation can cross Federal, State, […]

  • WSWC Spring (183rd) Council Meeting – April 12 – 14th, Nebraska City, NE

    WSWC is very proud to make its Water Data Exchange (WaDE) program more widely available at the Nebraska City meetings. WaDE will be released with a total of 14 states, with 16 different agencies, providing targeted WaDE datasets. This is a big achievement, but more data are needed from each of the partners to provide […]

  • 2017 Utah Section AWRA Conference – May 16th 2017

    The AWRA Utah Section if pleased to announce our 2017 Annual Conference, “Data for Water Management – More Exciting than it Sounds…and Far More Critical!” Tony Willardson will be speaking on Western Water Data topics during the morning session. This single day conference will be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2017. The conference will be […]

  • Aspen Institute Dialogue – Internet of Water

    The Aspen Institute has released it’s long anticipated publication that summarizes a year-long dialogue series. WSWC participated quite a bit in the dialogue and helped with some of the findings and recommendations. Many who are familiar with WaDE will find language in the report that is similar, especially regarding principles of data-sharing. AI’s Press Release: […]

  • NASA Satellite Data and Hydrology Tools

    Daniel Wood presented an update on the use of satellite data for water management, and the tools that NASA is developing to assist with hydrology modeling. For the presentation, click here. For a recording of the webinar, please click here.

  • (2017) 15th Symposium on the Settlement of Indian Reserved Water Rights Claims

    2017 Symposium on the Settlement of Indian Reserved Water Rights Claims The Western States Water Council and the Native American Rights Fund held their fifteenth biennial Symposium on the Settlement of Indian Reserved Water Rights Claims on August 8-10, at the Best Western Plus Heritage Inn in Great Falls, Montana. A number of topics were […]

  • EPA’s Water Innovation Fund

    Water Innovation Fund The Water Funder Initiative is (WFI) is a collaborative effort to identify and activate promising water solutions through strategic philanthropic investments in the U.S., starting in the West where the scarcity and reliability of clean water are urgent issues. The goal of the Water Innovation Fund (“the Fund”) is to accelerate the adoption […]

  • Getting to Know Your Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units

    Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs) provide research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners. Their broad scope includes the biological, physical, social, cultural, and engineering disciplines needed to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. Overhead costs are limited […]

  • Getting to know the DOI-USGS Climate Science Centers

    The first few seconds of the webinar was truncated for some reason, and didn’t catch all of the introduction for Robin O’Malley who is the Director of the North Central Climate Science Center in Fort Collins Colorado.  Robin is originally from the Northeastern United States and is finding the west a very interesting challenge.  This […]