One World One Water Center (OWOW)

The One World One Water Center (OWOW) was established in 2012 as the first interdisciplinary water education center at a university in the entire world. At the OWOW Center we believe there is no issue that is not a water issue. Therefore educating all students – regardless of major, career interest, or personal passion – allows for diversifying the voices entering the water community in not only identity, but also expertise and interest, in order to create holistic sustainable solutions to environmental issues.

The OWOW Center offers three interdisciplinary water studies academic programs to provide opportunity for all learners to engage: a water studies minor, a water studies certificate, and a professional water studies online certificate. We have steward hundreds learners through these programs from a variety of majors and careers including journalism, criminal justice, accounting, cyber security, history, brewery operations, and the environmental sciences.

The One World One Water Center prepares an educated, empowered, and solution-oriented Colorado citizenry to protect and preserve our precious water resources. In partnership with the Denver Botanic Gardens, the OWOW Center promotes intersectional and interdisciplinary water stewardship through three core foundational pillars: convening, educating, and activating.

The partnership with Denver Botanic Gardens presents an opportunity to build on and expand joint initiatives on water issues. This will allow us to:

1) expand the reach and breadth of interdisciplinary educational programs on water and environmental issues;
2) attract funding for joint research in these areas;
3) raise awareness of water and the environment through collaborative water stewardship.