Colorado’s water-short rivers present complex challenges that require creative solutions. At the Water Trust, we’ve always been inspired to explore new, localized approaches when existing ones don’t fit. For example,
In service to fiscal transparency and accountability, our final 990 from 2013 is available for review. CWT Final 990 – 2013
November 1, 2014, was an historic day! Terrace Reservoir began releasing the 162 acre-feet of water that they had stored for Alamosa Riverkeeper (ARK) and Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
For the second year in a row, the City of Aspen has voluntarily closed the headgate of the City-owned Wheeler Ditch in an effort to improve flows in the Roaring
Land Trust Alliance and the Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Policy have recently unveiled their long-awaited publication, Land Trusts and Water: Strategies and Resources for Addressing Water in Western
Before and after — what a difference two years can make! In March 2012, representatives from both the Colorado Water Trust and the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Program
The Stagecoach Reservoir/Yampa River short-term lease was approved by the Division of Water Resources (DWR) in 2012 for a one-year lease term per Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District’s request. In
The Colorado Water Trust’s short-term lease with Winter Park Ranch Water & Sanitation District was approved as a full season lease by the Division of Water Resources in early June.
Although the Yampa basin was hoping for more snow than 2012, the snowpack level in mid-May of 2013 was just at 66 percent of average. Once again, CWT, along with
In what looked like it might be a dry year, Kirk Klanke put his water where his mouth was. The general manager of Winter Park Ranch Water and Sanitation District
From the City of Fort Collins: An ecological restoration project is underway at North Shields Ponds Natural Area! The project will create five acres of wetlands, lower the steep and