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PARCHED: As hundreds of thousands of people move to Colorado, a...

Editor’s note: Marianne Goodland reports on water issues for this ongoing series: PARCHED, which looks at conservation, the role of agriculture and storage, as...

State water plan celebrates one year anniversary

In the year since Gov. John Hickenlooper and the Colorado Water Conservation Board released a much-ballyhooed plan to grapple with a looming water shortage,...

WHAT’S THE PLAN? Second draft of state water plan lacks actionable...

Colorado needs a mother lode of water by 2050 – as much, in fact, as it takes to serve about 2 million people. As our...

Watch: “What’s the Plan?” featuring Colorado Water Conservation Board director James...

Under Gov. John Hickenlooper’s executive order, Colorado Water Conservation Board director James Eklund and his staff are tasked with putting together Colorado’s first-ever statewide water plan by...