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Dolores River watershed From The Colorado Springs Gazette (Carol McKinley): water scarcity driven by drastic climate-change along the Dolores River
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Ridgway Reservoir during winter From The Montrose Daily Press (Cassie Knust): When Project 7 began drawing up plans for a water resiliency program in
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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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From The Colorado Sun (Michael Booth): The Uncompahgre may have a legal guardian in its future after a town vote, though critics of “rights of
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The Suncor refinery in Commerce City is pictured on Sand Creek near where it meets the South Platte River. Both streams have highly challenged water
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Sign at a boat ramp on Lake Mead, near Boulder City, Nevada, Aug. 13, 2021. The lake currently is roughly two-thirds empty. AP Photo/John
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Ouray County Water Users Association wants to build Ram’s Horn Reservoir on the upper reach of Cow Creek, shown here. Ouray County has requested
The South Platte River Basin is shaded in yellow. Source: Tom Cech, One World One Water Center, Metropolitan State University of Denver. From email
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Gross Reservoir. Photo: Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism From The Denver Post (Conrad Swanson): The utility will pay millions to mitigate
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Colorado River Storage Project map. Credit: USBR From email from Reclamation (Susan Novak Behery): Reclamation’s November 24-Month Study includes a
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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:
Western water rights reflect a short and stable climate history, but that period of stability is ending. Looming climate change of 4°C will produce
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Confluence of the Little Colorado River and the Colorado River. Climate change is affecting western streams by diminishing snowpack and accelerating
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Colorado River. Photo credit: University of Montana I heard about this at yesterday’s AWRA Colorado Section Annual Symposium. Click through for the
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Many Indian reservations are located in or near contentious river basins where demand for water outstrips supply. Map courtesy of the Bureau of