Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 55 minutes ago
Western Water Assessment (WWA) is an applied research program that works directly with communities, water managers, hazard planners, and other partners in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming to help them make the best use of science to prepare for hazards like drought, wildfire, and flooding. In 2017, WWA launched a series of workshops in partnership with communities to help them plan for risks that they were facing. In 2018, WWA worked closely with community members and leaders in Carbondale, Colorado to plan a workshop focused on drought.
In this video, partners from Carbondale share how this collaboration with WWA helped local leaders assess risks from drought and develop and implement strategies to build community resilience. The workshop led to many changes, including improved irrigation practices, enhanced water supply redundancy, resilience planning for critical infrastructure like their sewer plant, and better hazard preparedness. This partnership is an example of how hazard planning and community engagement can help communities like Carbondale become resilient to hazard impacts.
Learn more at wwa.colorado.edu.
Video produced by Lauren Lipuma at CIRES.
Western Water Assessment (WWA) is an applied research program that works directly with communities, water managers, hazard planners, and other partners in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming to help them make the best use of science to prepare for hazards like drought, wildfire, and flooding. In 2017, WWA launched a series of workshops in partnership with communities to help them plan for risks that they were facing. In 2018, WWA worked closely with community members and leaders in Carbondale, Colorado to plan a workshop focused on drought.
In this video, partners from Carbondale share how this collaboration with WWA helped local leaders assess risks from drought and develop and implement strategies to build community resilience. The workshop led to many changes, including improved irrigation practices, enhanced water supply redundancy, resilience planning for critical infrastructure like their sewer plant, and better hazard preparedness. This partnership is an example of how hazard planning and community engagement can help communities like Carbondale become resilient to hazard impacts.
Learn more at wwa.colorado.edu.
Video produced by Lauren Lipuma at CIRES.
