The Drought Resilience Impact Platform (DRIP) is an integrated systems-based approach to reducing drought impacts and improving water quality and soil health. Drought-driven emergencies and water contamination risks can be prevented if groundwater is made reliably available during cycles of water stress, and communities, utilities and regulators are alerted by rapid water quality assessments. DRIP’s comprehensive systems-based design integrates early detection and planning with proactive surface and groundwater management to ensure safe water resources. Using a combined forecasting and market-based approach, DRIP can direct adaptation responses, enable effective water conservation, and sustain clean water access. DRIP is a suite of technologies designed to monitor distributed water resources, water quality, soil health and drought response.

With an increasing Front Range population and pressure on water and agricultural resources, DRIP’s monitoring and forecasting system embeds market-based resilience into the state’s water portfolio, with the potential to mitigate water scarcity and smartly manage resources over time. We are working at the community level with water rights-holders to determine the amount of water used, currently available, and forecasted for later in the season, in turn incentivizing water waste reduction, and efficient use by either storing/conserving water for later, or trading excess water with increased certainty it will not limit rights holders’ own supply later in the year.

DRIP has recently begun collaborating with Navajo Nation adjacent to Ute Mountain Ute land, installing sensors and collaborating on drought resilience.

• Drought Resilience Impact Platform

  Additional Info

  Installing remote sensing technology in remote water infrastructure and recording it's usage.

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  Location

  outside colorado

  Dates

  12/1/2019 - 12/31/2022

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  Not Applicable

• Drought Resilience Impact Platform

  Additional Info

  Installing remote sensing technology in remote water infrastructure and record its usage.

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  Location

  in colorado

  Durango

  Dates

  12/1/2019 - 12/31/2022

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  Not Applicable

• Drought Resilience Impact Platform

  Additional Info

  Installing remote sensing technology in remote water infrastructure and record it's usage.

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  Location

  outside US

  Dates

  12/1/2019 - 12/31/2022

  Public or Private

  Public Program (open to the public)

  Program Fee

  Not Applicable