A conversation about water with the Ute Mountain Ute tribal chairman
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Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: Farms should not be a default source of water to growing Colorado cities
The seven Colorado River Basin States and stakeholders are engaging to replace an important document with a long name: The 2007 Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead. These Interim Guidelines are set to expire in 2026. Over the past year, the Family Farm Alliance has […]
Posted inNews, Water
Nebraska governor signs into law plan to advance Colorado canal project
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a law Monday that will allow the state to move forward with plans to build a canal in Colorado to divert water out of the South Platte River because of fears about Colorado’s increased water use. Ricketts proposed the canal project to help protect Nebraska’s water rights […]
Posted inNews, Water
Nebraska lawmakers approve proposed $500M canal in Colorado
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would let the state build a canal in Colorado to divert water out of the South Platte River, a project steeped in fears about the Denver area’s growing water consumption. Lawmakers passed the measure with little fanfare, 42-4, and sent it to […]
Posted inNews, Outdoors
Glenwood Springs granted right to build whitewater parks after 9 years in water court
Colorado’s river recreation economy boomed in the first 10 years of recreational in-channel diversion water rights, which state lawmakers created in 2001 to protect water used for recreation. In the decade that followed, 20 communities claimed rights that kept rapids roiling in whitewater parks that became community centerpieces. But those water rights, known as RICDs […]
Posted inCartoons, Opinion
Jim Morrissey: Hey, Nebraska, about that canal you want to build…
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
Posted inWater
Nebraska wants to build a $500 million canal over the border. Can Colorado stop it?
Remnants of the last time the Huskers tried this, in 1894, pock the landscape of far northeastern Colorado. Experts say there’s a difference between water rights and what’s right.
Posted inEconomy, Environment, Growth, News, Politics and Government, Water
Controversial canal along South Platte River in Colorado now on Nebraska’s front burner after COVID aid windfall
By Grant Schulte, The Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts ramped up his push Wednesday for income tax cuts, a new state prison and a $500 million canal to claim water from Colorado, arguing that the state is expected to collect more than enough revenue to pay for it all. The Republican […]
Posted inEnvironment
A record number of Coloradans are pursuing conservation easements as land, water prices increase
Tony Caligiuri was ready for it to fall apart. Instead, the pandemic gave conservation in Colorado a boost. Soaring land values, spiking prices for water, legislation boosting incentives for landowners who protect their land and growing pressure to develop open land has fueled a record year for conservation easements in Colorado. “We were bracing ourselves […]
Posted inNews, Water
Jared Polis to “aggressively assert” water rights as Nebraska plans $500M canal in Colorado
By Grant Schulte, The Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Colorado’s governor is warning he will “protect and aggressively assert” his state’s water rights after Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced a plan to spend $500 million on a canal and reservoir project that includes claiming access to land in Colorado under a 99-year-old compact between the […]