Colorado River District

Colorado water officials this week (September 5th) will weigh in on whether a pair of Colorado River power rights can be used to benefit the environment. Allowing the state to use Shoshone’s water rights could save fish and improve the aquatic environment in the watershed. The Colorado Sun's Shannon Mullane discussed the topic with KUNC's Desmond O'Boyle

Western Slope communities, led by the Colorado River District, want to buy the historic Shoshone Power Plant water rights to support their economies. Front Range water providers worry their water supplies could be harmed. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Shannon Mullane and the read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.

The Colorado River District wants to buy water used by the Shoshone hydropower, but a Front Range water supplier wants to see more data.

Water from the Shoshone hydropower plant near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, will be purchased by the Colorado River District. It's part of an expensive effort to keep water flowing to the farms, cities and rivers of Western Colorado, and away from fast-growing cities and towns around Denver.

Representatives from two lower basin states on the Colorado River have said they would finally address something that the upper basin states, including Colorado, have long pressed them to do: Fix the supply/demand imbalance sometimes called the “structural deficit.”

Mounting pressure to find water to conserve has Upper Basin leaders saying the savings should come from elsewhere

The conversation around water speculation has been heating up in Colorado in recent months. At the direction of state lawmakers, a work group has been meeting regularly to explore ways to strengthen the state’s anti-speculation law.

Coal-fired power plants are closing, or being given firm deadlines for closure, across the country. In the Western states that make up the overallocated…

Water managers on the Colorado River are facing a unique moment. With a temporary fix to the river’s scarcity problem recently completed, talk has begun…

Water managers along the Colorado River are trying to figure out how to live with less.Climate change is growing the gap between the river’s supply, and…