The Water Desk is excited to announce the recipients of new grants to support water journalism connected to the Colorado River Basin.
The grantees will be reporting on a range of critical water issues facing the region, including climate change, biodiversity, pollution, groundwater, ecological restoration, water conservation, tribal water issues and more.
The nine awards, up to $10,000 each, are being funded thanks to the support of the Walton Family Foundation. A total of $70,900 has been awarded in this round of grantmaking.
The recipients of The Water Desk’s 2025 Colorado River grants (in alphabetical order):
- Melissa Bailey, independent
- David Condos, KUER
- Jonathan Goodman, independent
- Ian James, Los Angeles Times
- Elizabeth Miller, independent
- Jim Robbins and Ted Wood, independent
- RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post
- Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic/azcentral
- Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun
The Water Desk maintains strict editorial independence from its funders and the University of Colorado. Funders of The Water Desk have no right to review or to otherwise influence stories or other journalistic content that is produced with the support of these grants. For more about our editorial independence, please see our funding page.
Congratulations and best of luck to our grantees. We look forward to seeing the water journalism they produce!
