Salt Lake City Forum Recap: Housing Growth in a Water-Constrained Region
Last week, WestWater Research hosted a WestWater Forum at Salt & Olive in Salt Lake City. The evening brought real estate and water professionals together to discuss housing growth in a water-constrained region. Brett Bovee, Intermountain Regional Director at WestWater Research, moderated a panel with Stephanie Taylor (Utah Association of Realtors), Dejan Eskic (Kem C. […]
Rates, Revenue, and Resilience: Water Finance Trends in Colorado
Join us in Denver on Thursday, November 5 for an engaging discussion on how Colorado water providers can balance affordability, financial sustainability, and growth to build resilient water systems for the future. Water utilities across Colorado are facing a growing financial challenge: the cost of providing reliable water service is rising at the same time […]
Join us at the Phoenix Forum
Join WestWater Research on October 28 for a conversation with leaders representing Arizona’s regional, state, and municipal water systems. Building a Resilient Portfolio: Diversifying Arizona’s Water Supply Resilient water portfolios are built on diversification. For Arizona, that means making the most of existing supplies, developing new sources, and connecting the systems that move water across […]
Groundwater in the Lone Star State: Change is in the Water
TAGD 2026 Conference Summary Earlier this month, WestWater Research joined groundwater districts, legislators, engineers, utilities, non-profits, and state agencies at the Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts (TAGD) conference in San Antionio. The 3-day event covered a huge range of topics relevant to groundwater in Texas. From land conservation, aquifer storage, and availability modeling to geochemistry, […]
Join us at the SLC Forum
Join us for a cocktail reception and candid-conversation with Utah’s real estate and water professionals. Utah is one of the fastest growing states in the country and one of the driest. Housing developers, brokers, and buyers make decisions every day that depend on water availability. The people managing these decisions around water and housing growth […]
Jack Carpenter Rejoins WestWater as Associate
WestWater Research is pleased to announce that Jack Carpenter has rejoined the firm as an Associate, based in our Fort Collins, Colorado office. Jack first joined WestWater in 2023 after completing a Master of Environmental Management with a concentration in water resources management at Duke University. He spent a brief period back in North Carolina […]
How to direct investments to help the Great Salt Lake?
I recently attended the Blue Industry event hosted by the Sorenson Impact Institute in-Salt Lake City. This event convened private sector investors, policy leaders, and local Utah companies to discuss the challenge of the Great Salt Lake and the role of different capital streams in providing financial resources to tackle this broad problem. The room […]
Water Solutions 11: What Data Centers Need from Water
WestWater Research joined Water Solutions 11: The Water Data Center Nexus, hosted by Sustain SoCal on August 13, 2026 at UCI Beall Applied Innovation. Isabelle Lavoie, Research Associate, spoke on the panel “Water Value for Data Centers: What are Markets Telling Us?” alongside Zach Smith, Counsel – Water Practice, O’Melveny & Myers LLP. The day […]
Reflections on WateReuse California
California’s water supply is getting less reliable. Surface water supplies from Northern California and Colorado River deliveries are under pressure, and groundwater regulations are starting to bite. Growing demand for water reuse projects is a credible response to these pressures. WateReuse California’s potable reuse map shows the scale of what is coming: projects in planning, […]
Last Chance for SWIS Early Bird
Early Bird pricing for the 2027 Sustainable Water Investment Summit ends Monday, Aug. 31. Register now at $1,100 and save up to $350 off full-price registration. SWIS puts investors, utilities, public officials, and innovators in one room for two days of candid conversation about water risk, transfers, supply strategy, infrastructure, storage, and the capital moving […]
