Category: Water Legislation

Many of Colorado's rivers and streams are intermittent and ephemeral, making their classification under the Clean Water Act difficult. Credit: Jerd Smith

Colorado AG, top water quality regulator vow to challenge new Clean Water Act rule

May 6, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Polis signs five major water bills into law: instream flows, anti-speculating, and more

April 29, 2020 by Larry Morandi

Streets are empty in Central City, with casinos shuttered and hundreds of workers layed-off. The pandemic is bad news for the state's new sports-betting tax , which was to have helped fund the Colorado Water Plan. April 21, 2020. Credit: Jerd Smith

New gambling tax revenue forecasts in free fall; cash for water plan in limbo

April 22, 2020 by Jerd Smith

The three-state Platte River Recovery Implementation Program was reauthorized by Congress and President Trump at the end of the year in a rare show of bi-partisan support for species conservation. Credit: PRRIP

States, Congress, Trump okay $156M to extend innovative Platte River recovery program

January 15, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Western Water Plans: How do Western states incorporate regional engagement into water resource planning?

December 2, 2019 by Hannah O'Neill

Lake Powell, created with the 1963 completion of Glen Canyon Dam, is the upper basin's largest reservoir on the Colorado River. But 2000-2019 has provided the least amount of inflow into the reservoir, making it the lowest 20-year period since the dam was built, as evidenced by the "bathtub ring" and dry land edging the reservoir, which was underwater in the past. As of October 1, 2019, Powell was 55 percent full. Credit: EcoFlight

Avoiding Lake Powell’s Day Zero

November 20, 2019 by Lindsay Fendt

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