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Water shortages in the West: ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’

By | 06.14.11 | 8:09 am

An extraordinary set of circumstances produced the Colorado River Compact of 1922. The question now is whether the compact and other laws and treaties collectively called the Law of the River are sufficiently resilient to prevent teeth-barring among the seven states of the basin in circumstances that during the 21st century may be even more extraordinary.

Fischer tells Channel 7 McInnis is lying

By | 07.15.10 | 8:27 am

Rolland “Rolly” Fischer, the former head of the Colorado River Water Conservation District now at the heart of the Scott McInnis plagiarism scandal, told Denver’s Channel 7 Wednesday that McInnis is lying.

McInnis, a Republican gubernatorial candidate and…

River district says Fischer dismissed in wake of Sentinel series

By | 07.14.10 | 10:29 am

When former Congressman Scott McInnis hired Roland “Rolly” Fischer as his “research assistant,” he got a man who knew his stuff, or seemed to, according to people who know him.

Fischer was hired by the Colorado River Water Conservation District…

River stories float past environmental threat posed by energy production

By | 05.26.10 | 2:18 pm

A pair of articles on the future of two very different Colorado rivers this week in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel and the Denver Post surfed right past the very real environmental concerns presented by ongoing energy development.

The Sentinel

Water expert: Snowpack dangerously close to drought levels

By | 01.19.10 | 8:52 am

Badly needed snowfall is expected in Colorado’s high country this week, but one expert says the state will need much more than the amount in the forecast to stave off drought on par with the one that marked the parched…

Colorado River official says politics of climate-change debate impeding work

By | 09.23.09 | 12:47 pm

Despite a flood of recent evidence that drought is endangering the Colorado River and all of the communities from Colorado to California that depend on its unimpeded flow, the Aspen Daily News reports climate-change doubters are still clouding the…