Water Desk
Horseshoe Bend last on list for Glenwood’s whitewater park sites
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An agreement with CPW to protect bighorn sheep and fish prioritizes the city’s options.
Aspen Journalism (https://www.aspenjournalism.org/author/bgs/page/3/)
An agreement with CPW to protect bighorn sheep and fish prioritizes the city’s options.
The water savings would come, in large measure, by paying willing irrigators to fallow hayfields and let water that would otherwise have been consumed run down the Colorado River system to Lake Powell, which is less than 40 percent full.
The former state senator, who has extensive experience working on water-related legislation, joins the CWCB board of directors.
The terrain to be added to Aspen Mountain comes with a history fitting of its name.
Lawsuits from Save the Colorado are challenging demand projections in an effort to leave more water in the Colorado River system.
Sales to cities and the energy sector are flat or declining, but sales to boost instream flows hold promise.
97 percent of the district’s revenue comes from property taxes, but state tax laws are reducing its revenue stream.
Reservoir levels are dropping, future hydrology is scary, and water must be saved.
Despite the welcome snowstorms in Colorado, dry soil in the upper Colorado River basin may keep runoff levels below average.
Colorado is ready to investigate the feasibility of a “voluntary, temporary and compensated” water-use reduction program