About our Work

Your organization is facing some tough challenges. Western water agencies, environmental and social justice advocates are increasingly facing issues like:

• Protecting water quality, water supply, ecosystem, and public health from the impacts of catastrophic wildfires and toxic algae outbreaks.

•  Selling the benefits of comprehensive solutions to governing boards, community leaders, stakeholders, and ratepayers.

•  Working cooperatively and even partnering with government and non-governmental organizations.

•  Finding funding sources to implement complex and expensive forest protection and green infrastructure approaches.

Does this sound like you?

Solutions to complex issues usually involve a delicate mix of both scientific and political approaches, perhaps with a dose of marketing, blended into a carefully crafted strategy to maintain the involvement of all players. Being guided through the process by a neutral outside group with significant expertise can help defuse or eliminate many impediments to success.

Confluence West brings such expertise to the table. Since 2007, we’ve worked with, for example, Salt Lake Public Utilities and Aurora Water, the Sonoran Institute and the Rio Grande Water Fund, the US Forest Service, social justice activists, climate scientists, and university researchers.

We focus is on systemic transformation, not a quick fix to your challenge. Two things make our work different: an unparalleled depth of knowledge and connections, and wide-ranging expertise with a track record of success.