Running the numbers:
What’s the value of your watershed?

How do you put monetary values on natural assets, such as wetlands, rivers, or riparian buffers? You couple hydrology, ecology, and economics. In our June 21 webinar, we explored how valuation studies can help water managers, policy makers, NGOs, and others communicate with their stakeholders, find funding sources, and align different organizations around critical priorities.

View the Watershed Valuation webinar

Assessing vulnerability:
Where should you start?

Water system vulnerabilities don’t end with water supply, so how do you put together a comprehensive assessment of your weak points? It can be a bit overwhelming—especially if your organization has minimal resources. In our September 20 webinar, we talked in detail about framing and evaluating water system vulnerabilities, and took a look at an example from the Salt River Project.

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Dialogue of the river basins:
An interview with Dr. Rosalind Bark.

Dr. Rosalind Bark is Resource Ecological Economist at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, but she has also spent a lot of time studying the Colorado River Basin.

See what she has to say

Managing the Phoenix water supply:
An interview with Charlie Ester.

As the manager of water resource operations for the Salt River Project, Charlie Ester delivers nearly a million acre-feet of water per year to customers in metropolitan Phoenix.

Get his perspective