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Colorado Water Supply Outlook Report - February 1, 2018

Colorado Water Supply Outlook Report - February 1, 2018

You can read the full report here. The general patterns of snowpack, precipitation, reservoir storage, and streamflow forecasts observed in the first three months of water year 2018 largely continued through the month of January. Southern Colorado has remained abnormally dry and continues to hold well below normal snowpack, which is also reflected in low streamflow forecasts. Snowpack is 31 percent of normal in the Upper Rio Grande basin and only 34 percent in the combined Sa

Summit Aims to Educate People on Water Use in Agriculture

Summit Aims to Educate People on Water Use in Agriculture

This article orginally appreader in The Fence Post on December 7th Coloradoans know that a majority of the more than 80 percent of the state's water is dedicated to agriculture and some think that is a problem. However, Colorado Agriculture Commissioner Don Brown said looking at the percentage breakdown of water use doesn't tell the whole story. Brown said people forget that water is used to produce food, and the water dedicated to agriculture spreads further than the immedia

Should Coloradoans Care about Water Levels in Lake Powell?

Should Coloradoans Care about Water Levels in Lake Powell?

[endif]--We occasionally hear about declining lake levels in Lake Powell or Lake Mead, but – apart from being nice places to boat and fish - what is the relevance of these water bodies to Colorado agricultural producers and rural residents? To understand this, we need to go back almost 100 years to the signing of the Colorado River Compact. Under the 1922 Compact, Colorado and the rest of the Upper Basin states – Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico – have a shared obligation “not to d

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Colorado Cattlemen’s Ag Water NetWORK Provides Assistance to Ag Water Right Holders

Colorado Cattlemen’s Ag Water NetWORK Provides Assistance to Ag Water Right Holders

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