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Announcing Three New Project Accelerator Selections
WaterNow is excited to announce the winners of our Spring 2025 Project Accelerator application cycle! Project Accelerator provides 250 hours of pro bono support to communities and utilities to jumpstart innovative water management projects. The Accelerator focuses on...
WaterNow Announces Fourth Colorado Project Accelerator Round
Our next Project Accelerator round is now open! This round will focus on Colorado communities, providing 250 hours of pro-bono assistance to support innovative projects in sustainable and equitable water management. The Accelerator is open to cities, towns, or special...
ICYMI – Experts Share How to Make Sustainable Water Projects a Reality
WaterNow Alliance hosted this year’s final Water Wednesday Webinar, “Finding Best-Fit Funding and Financing for Sustainable Water Projects”, on November 6, 2024, which focused on showcasing various funding and financing options for sustainable water projects. The...
Supporting Safe Sanitation on World Toilet Day
November 19th marks this year's World Toilet Day, a United Nations designation designed to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. Worldwide, 3.5 billion people live without safely managed sanitation, including over 1 million households in the United...
Announcing WaterNow’s Newest Project Accelerator Participants
WaterNow is excited to announce the newest Project Accelerator participants! Through Project Accelerator, we partner with communities and water agencies to champion sustainable, innovative water solutions. Today we announce three new Accelerator projects that we will...
WaterNow Launches New Program to Help Colorado Communities Finance Sustainable Water Projects at Scale
As Colorado communities strive to implement sustainable and resilient water infrastructure projects, securing funding is often a top challenge. To support communities’ efforts to overcome this challenge, WaterNow Alliance is excited to announce our new Colorado State...
ICYMI — Colorado Communities Share Advice on Securing WaterSMART Funds
WaterNow Alliance hosted a Water Wednesday Webinar, “Unlocking WaterSMART Funding: Insights and Success Stories from Colorado Communities”, on May 29, 2024 focused on sharing feedback from Colorado communities who have successfully received funding from U.S. Bureau of...
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Fighting Fire with Funding: WaterNow’s New Wildfire Resilience Financing Dashboard
For many Colorado communities, wildfire resilience begins with healthy upstream watersheds. Nature-based strategies – like forest thinning, stream restoration, and erosion control – can make all the difference, but making a strong business case and securing long-term...