The Western Water Assessment, a federally funded research and outreach group based at the University of Colorado, sent a note to its stakeholders yesterday informing us that the new administration’s plans to eliminate large swaths of federal climate spending include WWA’s primary funding source:

We know that it can be hard to keep track of all of the news these days, and wanted to reach out to let you know that proposed changes to NOAA would eliminate the office that funds our work with you, which could mean the end of Western Water Assessment as a NOAA-funded program.

We are hard at work exploring alternative options so that we can continue to partner with and serve you. That includes our work holding community hazard planning workshops, improving rural community wildfire recovery, providing our ‘one-stop-shop’ Intermountain West Climate Dashboard and Summaries, supporting water planning efforts, and more.

In my Colorado River management world, that work includes the indispensable Colorado River Basin State of the Science report.