Schwartz said that although it was an honor to hold the seat, she felt she couldn’t be as effective as she wanted in the position.
Category: Water
Reporting on water and rivers in the Roaring Fork and upper Colorado river basins.
Posted inWater
Popular ditch inventories remain private despite being publicly funded
But neither the CWCB nor the Colorado Basin Roundtable has a policy that allows the public to have access to the inventories, even when public money is used to fund their creation.
Posted inWater
River District addresses controversial water speculation bill
The River District’s amendment is an attempt to revise the current proposed legislation, which has not found support from agricultural water users.
Posted inWater
State water education campaign focuses on individual actions
And although the agriculture industry represents 86% of the state’s water use, according to numbers provided by Water Education Colorado, Water ’22 does not include ways for agriculture to conserve water.
Posted inWater
Dropping reservoirs create ‘green light’ for sustainability on Colorado River
Rapidly dropping reservoir levels create a “green light” scenario for river management where conditions shift from a situation to be monitored to a problem that needs to be solved.
Posted inWater
Scarcity the theme of Colorado River conference
“The last 22 years has no 20th-century analogue,” said Brad Udall, senior water and climate research scientist at Colorado State University.
Posted inWater
Working within Colorado River’s 1922 water compact for 21st century focus of annual meeting
He also pointed out that requiring the upper basin, where most of the river’s flows originate as snowpack, to contribute the same fixed amount each year despite declining flows means that the upper basin is unfairly bearing the brunt of climate change.
Posted inWater
Glenwood Canyon monitoring project gets funding for second phase
The cascade of dirty water also had impacts to agricultural and municipal water users downstream in Silt, whose only source of water is the Colorado.
Posted inWater
Aspen officials release plan laying out 50 years of water projects
Storing water specifically until an emergency occurs is not a decreed beneficial use under Colorado water law. But municipal water providers often have a lot of leeway to plan for future needs, which could include storage projects.
Posted inWater
Ouray County asks state water board to delay filing aimed at instream flow protection
The CWCB, at the recommendation of Colorado Parks & Wildlife, is seeking instream flow protections for a 7.4-mile reach of Cow Creek — from its confluence with Lou Creek to its confluence with the Uncompahgre River, downstream of Ridgway Reservoir.