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A Digital Future for Colorado’s Water
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...Now Viewing Tag: water law
HOW THE COLORADO WATER TRUST USES MARKET-BASED AGREEMENTS TO BENEFIT RIVERS AND IRRIGATORS
The Colorado Water Trust makes agreements with water rights holders to buy or lease water to keep in the state’s rivers and streams. It negotiates deals with water rights holders—usually farmers and ranchers, who own 85 percent of the water in Colorado—to obtain...Now Viewing Tag: water law
Meet our summer legal interns!
Colorado Water Trust is pleased to welcome two legal interns to our team this summer: Evan Weis, from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and Mary Slosson, from the University of Colorado Law School. Mary and Evan will be working with the Water Trust staff...Now Viewing Tag: water law