Carpe Diem West

Healthy Headwaters Program: The headwaters landscapes that provide most of the Wests water for cities, farms, businesses and ecosystems are fundamentally threatened by climate change. Downstream communities are concerned about their water security. These factors provide an opportunity to build the next generation of ecological protection and restoration.Carpe Diem Wests Healthy Headwaters Program supports an alliance of upstream land managers, downstream water utilities, scientists, economists, and conservation advocates whose goal is to increase the climate resiliency of the headwaters systems that provide water for the West. The Healthy Headwaters Program works to:Ensure clean abundant water for communities around the American WestConnect upstream and downstream communities in a shared mission to preserve water supplyBuild resilience for stressed watersheds as the climate changesSupport wise, multi-factored approaches to headwaters forest preservation and restoration