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Water supplies are so tight in the West that most states keep close watch over every creek, river, ditch and reservoir. A complex web of laws and rules is meant to ensure that all the water that falls within a state’s boundaries is put to use or sent downstream to meet the needs of others.
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Updated 11/6/19 at 3:13 p.m.Proposition DD has passed with 50.7% of the vote, according to unofficial vote totals from the Colorado Secretary of State's…
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The effects of climate change are not far off problems for future generations. They are existential problems for everyone alive today.That’s one big…
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Larimer County commissioners have again delayed their vote on a controversial water pipeline the city of Thornton wants to build north of Fort Collins.…
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More than thirty years ago, the city of Thornton purchased water rights along the Poudre River in Larimer County. Those rights, about 14,000 acre-feet,…
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Stories of Western groundwater wells going dry started bubbling up during a multi-year drought that began in 2012. Farmers and rural communities…
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Colorado's water plan will probably include additional conservation measures from cities and industrial users. That's what members of the state's…
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Parts of Southeast Colorado are experiencing a longer period of drought than the dry times that occurred during the Dust Bowl.According to Nolan Doesken,…
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The future of agriculture across the Great Plains hinges on water. Without it, nothing can grow.Climate models and population growth paint a pretty bleak…
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Colorado's largest water utility on Wednesday declared a Stage 2 drought, saying March snowfall was not enough to improve the current conditions.That…