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Groundbreaking State Law Tested in Colorado Headwaters Stream
The infamous use-it-or lose-it rule is arguably the biggest barrier to water conservation and river-flow restoration in the western United States. It basically says that if anyone holding water rights does not put them to full use, the unused portion can be taken away...Now Viewing Tag: Rio
Local landowner avoids ‘use it or lose it’ with new program
In Colorado, no term inspires a vacuous, eye-glazing stare quite like “water law.” To the average Coloradan, the voluminous, arcane and, at times, archaic laws that apply to the state’s water may seem largely inconsequential, even mystical. But there is one facet of...Now Viewing Tag: Rio

Colorado cuts into use-or-lose system that caused water waste
Two-year effort to change system taking effect with first deals in Grand County and Aspen Colorado water rights owners are forging a way out of the state’s ingrained “Use It Or Lose It” rule that penalizes those who divert less than their full...Now Viewing Tag: Rio