Dust on Snow Update
Water Year 2010 has already distinguished itself from Water Year 2009 by the absence of dust-on-snow events, to-date. By March 1, 2009 there were three dust-on-snow events in the western San Juan...
View ArticleColorado River Availability Study Released
Colorado may have 900,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water left to develop--or it may have nothing. While some general trends are apparent, a new study can't pin down the exact conditions 30 or 60...
View ArticleBig Agriculture Probes
Some Obama administration officials have made clear their unease with the increasing control a handful of corporations have over the nation's food supply. At a gathering in Iowa in March they could...
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Legislative Update by Senator Bruce Whitehead
It seems to happen to every legislator at least once in his or her time at the Capitol. A bill you are certain is noncontroversial becomes far more complicated and contentious than you expected.read more
View ArticleCU-Boulder Law School Studies Possible Reforms to Colorado River Management
Demands on the Colorado River by the seven states in its basin are not sustainable. A complex web of treaties, compacts, laws, and court decisions govern who can use the river's water and when. But...
View ArticleArt Isgar, Passes at 94
Art Isgar, the father of former two-term state senator Jim Isgar, passed away March 23rd. He was 94. Isgar, with little money or formal education, was on his own by age 13. Eventually, however, he was...
View ArticleStewart Udall, former Interior secretary, environmental leader and political...
Former U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall--uncle of U.S. Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, father of another senator and patriarch of one of the West's leading political families—passed away March 20th...
View ArticleManure Pollution
Animal manure, a byproduct as old as agriculture, has become an unlikely modern pollution problem, scientists and environmentalists say. The country simply has more dung than it can handle: Crowded...
View ArticleInterior Department Launches WaterSMART Initiative
In February, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, signed a Secretarial Order establishing a new water sustainability strategy for the United States called WaterSMART (SMART stands for ‘Sustain and...
View ArticleAbandonment List Out in July
Abandonment of a water right involves its non-use and the demonstrated intent to legally give up the right to use water for the decreed purpose. The abandonment process is conducted by the Colorado...
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