Colorado Water Trust Employs New Tactics in Drought Response
The Colorado Water Trust just kicked off its pilot drought response water leasing program this year. Visit the CWT website or schedule a public informational meeting to learn more about leasing your...
View ArticleExtreme Drought Area Grows
Ten percent of Colorado in extreme drought; entire state at some level of drought http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_state.htm?CO,W From a recent press release from the Eagle River Water and Sanitation...
View ArticleWater Lease Could Wet the Yampa River
Stagecoach Reservoir. Yesterday, the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District‘s Board of Directors reached an agreement, approving a water lease with the Colorado Water Trust and Colorado Water...
View ArticleRequest for Water
The March 1 snow report indicates that snowpack is below average this year, as it was last year– many rivers and streams may see shortages for a second year in a row, while for some in Colorado, this...
View ArticleCFWE 2013 President’s Reception
The Colorado Foundation for Water Education’s 2013 President’s Award Reception is shaping up to be an enticing event. The delicious food and drinks have been ordered, History Colorado is prepping...
View ArticleRethinking Reservoirs
Terrace Reservoir Around Colorado new collaborations are emerging around water storage and use. From Steamboat Springs to the San Luis Valley, different water interests are working together to increase...
View ArticleIt’s a New (water) Year!
(Photo credit: sektordua) Not only is October 1 the start of a beautiful fall month, but today in Colorado we begin a bright new water year. Climatologists and hydrologists track surface water and...
View ArticleColorado Water Trust working to marry instream flow protection and ranch...
The San Juan Mountains backstop this valley, home of the Little Cimarron River, to the south. By Zach Smith When standing on the ranch, you can’t quite see the river. If it’s a good autumn, the snowy...
View ArticleCollaborative Watershed Management Highlights in the Roaring Fork Basin
By Chelsea Congdon Brundige, Public Counsel of the Rockies In Colorado, everyone from irrigators and municipalities, law-makers and water districts, regulators and conservationists are scrambling to...
View ArticleChange Brings Hope
Photo Credit: Riverhugger By the Colorado Water Trust staff In October 2016, The Durango Herald carried a modest story sporting the headline, “Trout Discovered in Creek Long Devoid of Fish.” In the...
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