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Colorado Water: You Get What You Pay For

Oct 4, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Statewide, Uncategorized

Water in Colorado is owned by the people of Colorado. But the right to use that water is property, which can be bought and sold on the market by all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons. So why aren’t we – the people of Colorado – buying those rights when they are...

A Digital Future for Colorado’s Water

Aug 1, 2022 | Article, Division 5, Statewide

LEGAL CONTEXT Colorado uses a prior-appropriation system to assign the relative priorities of water rights. Water rights established earliest are assigned senior priorities relative to water rights established later. Priority is assigned to a water right when the...

Kate reflects on 2020 and the Water Leaders Program

Mar 17, 2021 | Blog, Featured

When our Executive Director, Andy, asked me to write a blog about participating in last year’s Water Leaders program I wasn’t all that excited about it. I’m not much of a share-er. In the past at least, I’ve tended to keep my personal life fairly private. Especially...

White Paper

Jul 27, 2020 | Report

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Concerted efforts and partnerships that protect a stretch of river

Jun 3, 2020 | Blog, Division 5, Featured

We talk about the 15-Mile Reach a lot. But that’s because we are so excited about our project there. Last year, Colorado Water Trust entered into an historic agreement with the Orchard Mesa Irrigation District (OMID) and the Grand Valley Water Users Association...