Arkansas River Basin

February 21, 2009--Farming was driving force for water law (Pueblo Chieftain)

Colorado water law was forged in the furnace of the Civil War, and had less to do with the discovery of minerals in the mountains than to support the farmers who were feeding the miners.

February 18, 2009--Water board OKs sale of Columbine (Pueblo Chieftain)

The sale of the Columbine Ditch to a developer of a ski mountain at Minturn was approved by the Pueblo Board of Water Works on Tuesday, but Aurora still has one more chance to bid on the transmountain

January 9, 2009--State water needs on collision course (Pueblo Chieftain)

While competing water needs are on a collision course in Colorado, land-use decision-makers and water providers have barely begun to talk about how to deal with shortfalls. That was the assessment of Harris Sherman, executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, at a meeting of Action 22 Thursday at Colorado State University-Pueblo.
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