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Watershed Symposium

Free and open to all, the Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium encourages a comprehensive review of the current state of our watershed while creating learning and networking opportunities for a broad array of stakeholders. Each year we welcome our community of water stewards, environmental advocates, scholars, students, policymakers, agencies, and members of the general public.

Pressures on our watershed are mounting. The Great Salt Lake crisis continues. Climate change, development, water diversion, population growth, shrinking snowpack, loss of healthy ecosystems, and more. The Watershed Symposium provides a forum for varied perspectives on how to understand and address these issues.

Hosted annually by Salt Lake County's Watershed Planning & Restoration Program.

2026 Watershed Symposium

Save the Date! The 20th Annual Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium will be held November 17-18, 2026 at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. Two days filled with informative sessions, engaging speakers, and great networking opportunities.

Kudos for the Watershed Symposium

Some of our favorite comments over the years:

"It was great to attend a conference with such a breadth of topics and technical/big-picture talks."

"This is one of the best opportunities to network and build partnering relationships toward supporting a healthier watershed. The free admission and food makes it possible for all to attend and its timely content makes it appealing to an interesting cross-section of professions and disciplines. Great job!"

"Seriously one of the best, well-run conferences I've ever attended."

"It's a wonderful gestalt of useful and insightful information about what's going on in the watershed, which is of course an important bottom line. I love the networking potential and am very proud of the work that Salt Lake County is doing in this area."

"The Symposium is tremendously important to the future of all of Utah."

"I'm a scientist by profession and seldom have attended ANY meeting as interesting or as immediately useful as this symposium."

"The thought and efforts put into reducing the carbon footprint were incredible. That's tough to accomplish with such a large event."

Watershed Symposium Archives

16th Annual, November 16-17, 2022

2022 Program
2022 Photo Gallery

15th Annual, November 17, 2021 (virtual)

2021 Program

14th Annual, November 18, 2020 (virtual)

2020 Program

13th Annual, November 20-21, 2019

2019 Program
2019 Photo Gallery

12th Annual, November 14-15, 2018

2018 Program
2018 Photo Gallery

11th Annual, November 15-16, 2017

2017 Program
2017 Photo Gallery

10th Annual, November 15-16, 2016

2016 Program