Resources and Links

Explore the digital Western Water Resources Collection in CMU's library!

Recent Reports

• Recent Colorado River Research Group publications:
  • The Emerging Tribal Role in the Colorado River Basin (August 2019) 
  • Thinking About Risk on the Colorado River (May 2019)
  • It's Hard to Fill a Bathtub When the Drain is Wide Open: The Case of Lake Powell
    (August 2018)
  • When is Drought Not a Drought?  Drought, Aridification, and the "New Normal" (March 2018) 
  • Innovations in Agricultural Water Conservation and Use: Fertile Ground for Lasting Solutions (June 2017)
  • Climate Change and the Colorado River: What We Already Know (October 2016)
• Joint West Slope Roundtables Colorado River Risk Study Summary (2016) 
• Colorado Water Plan (2015)
• Colorado Climate Plan (2015)
• 2014 Climate Change in Colorado Report from Western Water Assessment and the CO Water Conservation Board.
• Colorado River Basin Supply & Demand Study (2012) coordinated by the US Bureau of Reclamation
• Aspinall Unit Final Environmental Impact Statement released.
• 2012 Oil Shale & Tar Sands Draft Environmental Impact Statement released by Bureau of Land Management

Water Education

• Water Education Colorado (Citizen Guides to water topics and other educational resources)

Water Supply and Water Quality Information

• USGS Colorado Water Science Center
• Colorado snowpack information from the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
• Western Water Assessment (CU Boulder) Intermountain West Climate Dashboard.
• Colorado Climate Center & National Integrated Drought Information System Upper Colorado Basin site.
• US Drought Monitor
• Colorado Water Conservation Board Drought info