Author - The Durango Herald
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Jerd Smith
Position: Fresh Water News

Colorado water project funding is drying up

Under Senate Bill 40, a nine-member panel would examine new options to replace severance tax money

Western Slope water interests make $98.5M play to buy some of the Colorado River’s oldest water rights from Xcel

Xcel Energy owns some of the oldest water rights on the Colorado River near Glenwood Springs. A coalition thinks would be a better manager of them.

Colorado’s statewide snowpack tops 140%, though reservoirs are still low

Deep mountain snow is good news, but what really matters is how reservoirs and soil moisture are replenished when it melts