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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...

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Extreme 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...

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Water 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...

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Request 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...

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CFWE 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...

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Rethinking 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...

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It’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...

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Colorado 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...

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Collaborative 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...

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Change 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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