Shifting Water Policy
The voice and influence of the business community is often missing from water policy and implementation strategies.
As a result, water policies can be dated, impractical, and hard to scale, and that’s bad for commerce, communities, and the environment. That’s why we’ve built a network of business leaders who will get smarter on water policies and engage in them at the local, state, and federal levels.
We need the speed, influence, and financial support of the business community to bring a fresh approach to water policy that can move change forward quickly.
We work with businesses large and small to:
Connect businesses
with policymakers
Create innovative
financing streams
Develop and share
policy tools
Advance equity
Policy Areas
We support water policies that:
Reduce water use
Improve watershed health and restore our natural systems
Improve and integrate forest and watershed management
Increase efficiency and technology innovation in our cities and agricultural areas
Strengthen partnerships with Indigenous communities
Support international efforts to leave water in the rivers
Our Progress Together
$500M
State and federal funds leveraged for water projects
10000
Acre-feet of outdoor water conserved annually across Colorado River Basin
10M
Users with expanded access to water tools
“Water is the lifeblood of our Valley and everything we do here will be dependent on a healthy river. Whether it is Colorado or the United States, the solutions will come from us working together and cooperating.”
Jennifer Holloway
Craig Chamber Co.
“We can agree we are already decades behind; we need game-changing water decisions now. I think we can get to solutions and we can find more common ground between stakeholder groups.”
Matt Lappé
Conscience Bay Research
The Latest on Water Policy
For questions about shifting water
policy, please contact:
Harold Thomas
Senior Program Manager
