Water Education Colorado offers informative webinars on both trends and niches in water research, conservation, industry and more.
Past webinar topics have ranged from endangered fish recovery to alternative transfer methods to agriculture and water scarcity. To hear recordings of past webinars or to register for an upcoming webinar, click on your topic of choice below.
Join us on April 17 at noon for an insightful webinar exploring the latest water headlines, trending topics, and key issues you should know about.
Get the inside scoop from Jerd Smith, Editor of Fresh Water News, and Shannon Mullane, Colorado River reporter for The Colorado Sun, as they break down the stories shaping water conversations in the West.
Scholarships are available! To learn more or request one, contact caitlin@wateredco.org.
Aired February 11, 2025
This webinar focuses on produced water. We cover some basics about water in the oil and gas industry, learn about new rules focused on reusing that water (which are expected to be adopted in early 2025) — and the negotiations that have surrounded them, hear about the Colorado Produced Water Consortium, and explore opportunities and challenges as the industry and environmentalists look at what it means to stretch freshwater use and to reuse more water.
With speakers:
Harmony Cummings, the Green House Connection Center
Hope Dalton, Colorado Produced Water Consortium
Josh Kuhn, Conservation Colorado
John Messner, Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission
Grant Tupper, Select Water Solutions
Aired April 11, 2024
Every year, mid-April means peak snowpack for the Rocky Mountains. But what does that mean for the rivers? And why have recent forecasts consistently overestimated the snow-to-flow connection?
Through this webinar, guest speakers from the Colorado River District, the Aspen Global Change Institute, the CSU Climate Center, and NOAA’s Colorado Basin River Forecast Center break down our current snowpack conditions, look at upcoming expectations for runoff, and examine how recent climate trends are affecting the way we predict water availability in the West. Tune in to begin to understand what’s causing the gap between big winter snows and low summer flows — when reality doesn’t line up with the forecast.
Hosted in partnership with Water Education Colorado and the Colorado River District.
With speakers:
Brendon Langenhuizen – Director of Technical Advocacy, Colorado River District
Paul Miller – Service Coordination Hydrologist, Colorado Basin River Forecast Center
Peter Goble – Climatologist, Colorado State University Climate Center
Elise Osenga – Community Science Manager, Aspen Global Change Institute
Aired February 21, 2024
The One Water movement promises to make communities more resilient and livable with wide-ranging goals. But what really is One Water and what is it not? How does a community adopt a One Water approach and what can they learn from existing One Water work? During this webinar we seek to better define One Water and hear from those who are putting One Water principles to the test in Denver and Aspen.
With speakers:
Mazdak Arabi, One Water Solutions Institute
Steve Hunter, City of Aspen
Dave Jula, City and County of Denver
John Rehring, Carollo Engineers
Held October 26th, 2023
Join Peter Gleick from the Pacific Institute as he discusses his book, the Three Ages of Water. In this talk, Peter discusses how humans developed our modern water management and treatment systems, how our decisions have impacted the environment, and paints a picture of a hopeful future of water management and sustainability.
Following his talk, Peter has a fireside chat with his colleague Shannon Spurlock, and then opens the discussion up to a Q&A.
With speakers:
Peter Gleick, The Pacific Institute
Shannon Spurlock, The Pacific Institute
Aired September 12, 2023
We hear a lot about the benefits of beavers in stream restoration, but Colorado’s riparian systems are complex and there are many different tools in the restoration toolbox.
During this webinar, we hear about Process-Based Restoration (PBR) and to explore on-the-ground projects that represent opposite ends of the PBR spectrum, from “low tech” to “high tech,” and why these different approaches are appropriate in different scenarios.
With speakers:
Julie Ash, Stillwater Sciences
Hally Strevey, Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed
Colin Barry, Ayres Associates
Eric Richer, Colorado Parks & Wildlife
Johannes Beeby, Stillwater Sciences