Furthering the Organizational Goals of our Founding Member, the Colorado Wildlife Foundation , by using innovation, Public Private Partnerships and non-traditional funding sources to address unresolved legacy water and weather related issues within Colorado and the Western US.
Western States Water Partnership is designed to fill the “Mission, Timing and Funding Gaps” that exist within local, county, state and federal agencies and that impede their ability to effectively address legacy water issues critical to Colorado and other Western States.
Due to the “line of sight” nature of the existing network of National Weather Service (NWS) radars, significant portions of the Western US, to include most of the Western Slope of Colorado, have little to no weather radar coverage below 25,000 ft MSL . Those radar “gaps” prevent accurate weather forecasting needed to predict: