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Polis administration, state leaders launch Water ’22 awareness campaign
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Warning of persistent threats to Colorado’s water supply, Gov. Jared Polis, along with other state leaders, on Wednesday launched a year-long campaign aimed at raising awareness and ultimately conserving the state’s most precious natural resource. The campaign, called Water ’22, seeks to challenge Coloradans to adopt 22 ways – a play on the new year – to save at least…
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Heavy snowfall in late December, early January produces rare optimism from water watchers
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Snowfalls in late December and early January have resulted in some of the best snowpack conditions the state has seen in at least three years, according to state and federal water experts. The Water Availability Task Force, a coalition of state and federal water and climate experts, as well as local water providers, reviewed the…
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Douglas County goes after San Luis Valley water
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Douglas County, which will get $68.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, intends to put some of that money toward buying water from the San Luis Valley. But that isn’t sitting well with folks in the San Luis Valley, who claim the plan to divert water from the valley to the Front Range will…
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BIDLACK | There’s no such thing as free lunch — or water
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The top headline in last Thursday’s Gazette got me to thinking about my days on active duty, teaching political science at the Air Force Academy. Now granted, lots of things make me think back to my 25 years in uniform – airplanes flying overhead, short haircuts – but in this case it was the story…
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ANALYSIS | Walker Stapleton’s water policy sounds a lot like John Hickenlooper’s
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VAIL – One of the biggest secrets in Colorado, up until now, might have been what Walker Stapleton thinks about water. It’s not mentioned anywhere on the Republican gubernatorial candidate’s website, nor had he addressed the issue with the water community until Wednesday, when his campaign said he would announce his water policy at the…
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Federal judge orders Trump to reinstate Obama’s Waters of the US rule
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A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction Thursday against the Trump administration for delaying the Obama-era “Waters of the United States” rule, dealing a setback to a key piece of President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda. The decision by the U.S. District Court in South Carolina means that the rule, also known as WOTUS and the…
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Rafters, anglers worry as Colo.’s famed whitewater becomes low water
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By Jennifer Oldham, Special to The Washington Post KREMMLING – In the state known as the “mother of rivers,” the third-warmest and driest period in more than a century is wreaking havoc on waterways that provide the economic lifeline for rural communities and high-alpine habitat for Colorado’s signature fish, the greenback cutthroat trout. The extremes…
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COVER STORY | Imagine a great Colorado: 7 perspectives on how to lift up the state
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Colorado is, for many, a promised land; that’s why people keep coming here, of course. But can our state live up to the promise? That’s essentially the question that Colorado Politics put to a diverse group of longtime, prominent voices from across Colorado’s wide-ranging landscape. We asked them to “imagine a great Colorado” and to…
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State water taskforce has its fingers crossed for monsoons and El Nino
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Monday and Tuesday’s downpours, which led to flash flooding in some parts of the state and the cancellation of flights at Denver International Airport, did not go unnoticed by the water watchers around the state. It’s a sign of annual monsoon moisture, which the state’s water availability task force has been waiting for. Between the…
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Ken Buck wins House passage of ditch bill for rural communities
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A bill that will make it easier for irrigation and ditch companies to invest dollars without jeopardizing their non-profit status cleared the U.S. House Tuesday on a unanimous vote. U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Windsor, is the sponsor of the Water and Agriculture Tax Reform (WATER) Act of 2017. The bill would amend the Internal Revenue…
