Tag: Colorado Water Plan
PARCHED: Anticipated tab for state water plan doubles in less than...
Implementing Gov. John Hickenlooper’s ambitious water plan likely will cost at least twice what the administration projected.
When releasing the statewide strategy in 2015, James...
PARCHED: As hundreds of thousands of people move to Colorado, a...
Editor’s note: Marianne Goodland reports on water issues for this ongoing series: PARCHED, which looks at conservation, the role of agriculture and storage, as...
Lawmakers lament they “don’t have more influence” moving state water plan...
Two sessions have passed since Gov. John Hickenlooper rolled out Colorado’s first statewide water plan, yet lawmakers have made little progress toward the plan’s...
West Slope lawmakers to Front Range: No more West Slope water...
Seven Western Slope Republican lawmakers have sent Gov. John Hickenlooper a message: No more water for the Front Range until it better uses what...
State water plan celebrates one year anniversary
In the year since Gov. John Hickenlooper and the Colorado Water Conservation Board released a much-ballyhooed plan to grapple with a looming water shortage,...
More people, less water? Fewer Coloradans seem to care
Coloradans are more concerned about water quality than about water supplies, and their awareness of the state’s looming water shortage has fallen sharply in...
Staving off the state’s water shortage, one leaky pipe at a...
If Colorado hopes to reach its goal of conserving at least 130 billion gallons of water a year by 2050, some of the state’s water...
State water plan cost at least $6 million
Colorado taxpayers have spent at least $6 million on the state’s water plan, an eight-month-old document that has led to little, if any, real...
Path forward is murky in Hickenlooper’s final water plan
Gov. John Hickenlooper has made public Colorado’s first statewide water plan. Though the document is intended to save the state from a looming water...
Make a splash: Comment on Colorado’s water plan – by Thursday
Attention Colorado: We may disagree on many things in this square state. But we can all agree that we need — and love —...