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Watch: “What’s the Plan?” featuring Colorado Water Conservation Board director James...

Under Gov. John Hickenlooper’s executive order, Colorado Water Conservation Board director James Eklund and his staff are tasked with putting together Colorado’s first-ever statewide water plan by...

‘Where’s the beef’ in Colorado’s water plan?

FRISCO — The first draft of Colorado's new water plan offered plenty of background information about the state's water, but didn't say exactly what...

As flood waters recede, ski areas step up cloud-seeding efforts

FRISCO, Colo. -- humans for millennia have implored their gods to deliver rain and snow -- not catastrophic week-long downpours, but life-giving, field-soaking, stream-replenishing precipitation.

State skewered for spending taxpayer money to study pricey, private water...

Members of the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) today voted to spend an initial $72,000 to form a task force to study the feasibility of two separate proposals to pipe water out of the Green River in southwest Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range.

Water shortages in the West: ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’

An extraordinary set of circumstances produced the Colorado River Compact of 1922. The question now is whether the compact and other laws and treaties collectively called the Law of the River are sufficiently resilient to prevent teeth-barring among the seven states of the basin in circumstances that during the 21st century may be even more extraordinary.

Colorado water: agriculture, people and ecosystems compete for a limited supply

According to speakers at a water forum last week, Colorado faces a difficult--if not a dismal--water future.

Hickenlooper appoints members to Colorado Water Conservation Board

Gov. John Hickenlooper announced today appointments to the Colorado Water Conservation Board.

Report: Colorado facing severe water shortages by 2050

Population growth on Colorado’s Front Range and Western Slope, coupled with rising demand for energy production, will have the state in dire need of more water by the year 2050, according to a new report by the Statewide Water Supply Initiative.

Our beautiful resource hogs: Aspenites fight report of water-guzzling

Aspenites, long vilified as second-home-owning, heated-driveway-loving, jet-setting energy hogs, use 10 times more water than the average American, reported the Denver Post on Monday,...

Colorado River official says politics of climate-change debate impeding work

Despite a flood of recent evidence that drought is endangering the Colorado River and all of the communities from Colorado to California that depend...
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