The Year of Water legislative session is likely to be largely about money--money for everything from large regional water supply projects to river restoration and Indian water rights settlements. Gov. Bill Richardson has outline a $100 million agenda for water issues.

[EDITORIAL] Backers of the proposed Palisade whitewater park have some extra time to encourage the Mesa County Commission and others to provide the project with much-needed funding. The Colorado River Basin Roundtable, however, rejected a funding request on the rationale that the park would not generate any wet water.

The San Juan Water Conservancy District (SJWCD) has announced that the Southwest Basins Roundtable members unanimously voted to approve the district's $1 million grant application at a Jan. 10 meeting in Cortez. Of the applications submitted, the SJWCD's was the only one recommended for state consideration at this time.