bureau of reclamation
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Bennet, Hickenlooper seek additional funding for Arkansas Valley Conduit
While the federal government has kept the money flowing to the Arkansas Valley Conduit in southeastern Colorado, there’s more to be had, according to Colorado’s two Democratic senators. U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper sent a letter to the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, Camille Touton, seeking additional dollars from either the recent…
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Arkansas Valley Conduit to get $60 million — largest pot of funding to date from federal government
The Arkansas Valley Conduit, a water pipeline project that has been slow to start, will get $60 million from the latest round of federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday announced a total of $210 million in funding, earmarked for projects that seek to deliver clean, reliable drinking water…
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Federal ideas reflect little progress toward solving Colorado River crisis
The clock is ticking for the Colorado River, but solutions on how to save the river basin, which provides water to 40 million people in seven states and Mexico, still appears to be elusive, at least from the federal government. However, proposed solutions are starting to bubble up through Colorado agriculture’s community, including projects that…
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Ignored for decades, Colorado River tribes fight for their water rights
MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah • Navajo Nation residents in pickup trucks rumbled along dusty dirt roads in the ethereal painted desert of Monument Valley in August to a well where they fill up water tanks, sometimes multiple times a day. The well spigot in the dirt parking lot next to a shuttered post office in Goulding, Utah, is…
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Why California was spared and Arizona hammered: A brief history of Colorado River agreements
Tuesday’s announcement by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that it would require Arizona and Nevada to reduce their annual allocation of water from the Colorado River came as no surprise to most water experts. The reductions announced by Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton have been part of a long-standing agreement, known as the interim guidelines, since…
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Federal government’s ‘underwhelming’ plan for the Colorado River falls short of goal
For 62 days, the seven states of the Colorado River faced a mandate to come up with a plan to conserve 2 to 4 million acre-feet of water by 2023. Failing to do so, Commissioner Camille Touton of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation warned, would mean the federal government exercising its authority to come up with…
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Colorado tells Lower Basin states: Cut your water use to meet federal demand to conserve
Colorado has no plans to make additional cuts to water use next year to meet the Bureau of Reclamation’s demand to conserve millions of acre-feet of water, a step needed to preserve power production in Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Instead, Colorado officials insists that other states should do the cutting. “I think that at…