A study by Summit Economics, working in conjunction with Tucker Hart Adams’ group, was commissioned by the Front Range Water Council to explain the relationship of water to the Colorado Economy. The council is made up of the state’s largest water providers, who are also importing most of the water from the Western Slope.

Gunnison Basin water users are bristling at suggestions made last summer to the Interbasin Compact Committee, saying their concerns about economy and environment are equal to Front Range alarm at potential changes in the “urban landscape.” The Gunnison Basin Roundtable responded this month to letters from the Arkansas Basin Roundtable and the Front Range Water Council in July asking

Longtime Denver Water manager Chips Barry announced Monday that he will retire this spring — and board members are mobilizing to hunt for a successor. Barry said he plans to spend more time on his farm in Hawaii, where he produces macadamia nuts, coffee and honey. Running Denver Water "is a big, public, visible, high-power job.

Denver has hit turbulence in its biggest water-supply project since the 1960s — a $225 million effort to prevent future shortages.

Irrigation wells and recharge projects. Those are two of the water issues Lou Rinaldo, a member of the Lower South Platte Water Conservancy District (LSPWCD) board, spoke to the Rotary Club about Wednesday. He talked about the two different kinds of water Colorado has.

In five years, population growth in Denver will begin to outstrip water supplies, and by 2030, the city will be short about 11 billion gallons of water, according to Denver Water. That's one of the reasons why the agency is proposing an expansion of Gross Reservoir in southwest Boulder County that would almost triple its capacity.

A plan by Denver Water to increase water diversions from the West Slope to the Front Range will get an early December public hearing in Summit County. As described in a draft environmental study, the Moffat Collection System project in Grand County would also have impacts on flows on the Blue River.

Proposed legislation to encourage mitigation in water transfers might backfire and hurt current state efforts to encourage cooperation, a water board member warned. “We already have a bureaucratic effort to achieve the same goal,” said Harold Miskel, vice-president of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District.