Recent Reports
- Recent Colorado River Research Group publications include:
- 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
Colorado - Western Slope Water
Colorado - Statewide Information
- CO Water Conservation Board (water management, planning & financing)
- CO Division of Water Resources (administers water rights and well permits)
- CO Water Quality Control Division (water quality regulation & protection)
Water Center Presentations
(Click on links for recent events for presentations from guest speakers)
- Documentary film
- Colorado Basin PPT
- Water in Colorado and the Grand Valley - presentation for 6th graders