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From The High Country News [November 23, 2021] (Sarah Tory): Every summer in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, a long, high desert valley ringed by
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Rio Grande Pyramid From the Rio Grande Basin Roundtable via The Alamosa Citizen (Chris Lopez): THE 2015 Colorado Water Plan (CWP) was developed in
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Center, Colorado, is surrounded by center-pivot-irrigated farms that draw water from shrinking aquifers below the San Luis Valley. Photo credit:
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New Mexico Drought Monitor April 20, 2021. From The Taos News: As the county enters the second consecutive year of less water in a drying trend
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HomeLlake via city-data.com From Colorado Parks & Wildlife via The Monte Vista Journal: Colorado Parks and Wildlife is draining Home Lake and
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Rio Grande upstream near Montano, NM. Photo credit: USBR Here’s the release from the Bureau of Reclamation (Mary Carlson): The Bureau of
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From Writers on the Range (Denise Fort): Santa Fe, New Mexico, once was sustained by the waters of the Santa Fe River, which begins in the high
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Click here to register. Rio Grande and Pecos River basins. Map credit: By Kmusser – Own work, Elevation data from SRTM, drainage basin from GTOPO
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CLick here for all the inside skinny and to register: Join this annual community conversation about our water, threats & opportunities! Engage
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Click here for all the inside skinny and register: As land trusts conserve private land, they also protect water rights. Some of Colorado’s land
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From the Baca Grande Water & Sanitation District (John Loll) via The Crestone Eagle: The Baca Grande Water and Sanitation District Board of
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West Drought Monitor February 16, 2021. From The Associated Press (Susan Montoya Bryan): It’s a picture-perfect scene — the snow-dusted Sandia
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Westwide SNOTEL basin-filled map February 22, 2021 via the NRCS. From The Farmington Daily Times (Mike Easterling): A recent trio of storms that
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Click the image to go to the Colorado Ag Water website for all the inside skinny.
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Graphs showing water-year time series of basin-mean, annual-mean (A) precipitation (millimeters per year), (B) temperature (degrees Celsius), (C)