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“Use it or lose it” clauses give farmers, ranchers and governments holding water rights a powerful incentive to use more water than they need.

Water Congress speakers disagree over whether feds could force the state to conserve

Interstate negotiations on the Colorado River water allotments have added to tensions around the state’s limited water resources.

Colorado's Western Slope received so much snow this winter that reservoirs across the state are, by and large, filling higher than they have been in recent years and officials at Reclamation are able to send even more water downstream.

Colorado officials have drafted a bill aimed at addressing a rift between stream restoration projects and water rights holders.  The draft clarifies that restoration projects do not fall under the definitions of a diversion, storage...

Colorado officials have drafted a bill aimed at addressing a tension between stream restoration projects and water rights holders.

Colorado officials have drafted a bill aimed at addressing a tension between stream restoration projects and water rights holders. The draft clarifies that restoration projects do not fall under the definitions of a diversion, storage or a...

Colorado officials have drafted a bill aimed at addressing a tension between stream restoration projects and water rights holders.  The draft clarifies that restoration projects do not fall under the definitions of a diversion, storage...

Colorado officials have drafted a bill aimed at addressing a rift between stream restoration projects and water rights holders.  The draft clarifies that restoration projects do not fall under the definitions of a diversion, storage...

Water managers in recent weeks have put forth plans for conservation aimed at addressing the water-scarcity crisis on the Colorado River. But the proposals, which are vague and voluntary and lack goals with numbers, will...