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Water-Related Funding
Opportunities

Every year, the Colorado Water Center and partner organizations provide funding to catalyze innovative water research, education, and engagement.

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Colorado Water Center CSU grant program

Funding water research, extension, and education projects through our land-grant mission. This grant program invests in transdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships that ultimately lead to a more holistic understanding of water resource issues, and to integrate translation of this understanding into the water resource profession, as well as educate the future water workforce.

Water research seed grants

The Colorado Water Conservation Board offers a variety of grants to water providers and other organizations statewide for water-related projects, studies, planning documents, awareness campaigns and other activities.

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Graduate student research grants

The United States Geological Society, through the Water Resources Research Act Program, offers a variety of grants that support, coordinate, and facilitate research.