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Water Efficiency Grant Program Final Project WET Grant Report (CWN) <br />L ~ r <br />Odin <br />A~ ~ -'~i u <br />Dn~~in <br />Diui~n Grin <br />~'~~ <br />UNDERSTANDING <br />ACTION <br />Figure 2. Learning Retention Rates. <br />E. Funding Concerns <br />CAIN is concerned about permanently relying on the Mater Efficiency Grants program as its <br />primary funding source. Increasing demands on this source for conservation plans may limit the <br />levels of funding mailable for water education. Receiving money in two year blocks is not <br />sufficiently long enough to provide needed stability for the program. School districts and other <br />water sector partners want to be assured that programs are going to be around for a long time <br />before investing in them. Additionally, more stable and long term funding is likely necessary to <br />guarantee water education will not be cut in the future due to political swings and competing <br />demands. Such stability would provide the ability to develop long term planning and to gain more <br />traction in educational communities across Colorado. <br />V. Conclusions <br />In less than eighteen months, Project ~XIET has made enormous gains in Colorado. ~XIe've seen 60 <br />to 100% growth in all aspects of the program combined with considerably increasing the number <br />of specialized and extended workshops which point towards quantitative and qualitative gains. <br />Nationally, Colorado now falls in the 75t1i percentile range when compared with other Project <br />DIET programs across the nation. <br />Page 11 <br />