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A Post-Flood Race To Re-Channel Left Hand Creek

In Colorado, farmers are scrambling to recover from September’s flooding. The waters decimated miles of roadway, cut off entire towns and moved rivers....

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A Little Hydro Plant, But A 'Big Dog' In Colorado Water Rights

A complex series of agreements govern the distribution of water throughout the state. Along the Colorado River, farms, cities & towns, and the...

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Boulder Nonprofit Sounds Alarm On Sochi’s Environmental Woes

As the world focuses its attention on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Boulder-based Global Greengrants is raising environmental and civil liberties...

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Colorado Leads The Way On 'Small Hydro'

For much of the 20th century, hydroelectric technology led to the construction of giant dams across the American West and around the world. Big hydro...

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Saving Water, The Key To Beer's Success

With over 200 breweries and brewpubs, Colorado is one of top beer producers in the country. All that beer requires a lot of water. Brewers large and...

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Windy Gap, NISP Essential To Water Manager's Future Plans

Just west of Carter Lake in the foothills southwest of Loveland sits a rustic abandoned cabin in the middle of a rolling prairie. Soon that cabin, and...

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Colorado's River Basin Users Discuss Statewide Water Plan

For the first time, water users from Colorado’s nine river basins are meeting to discuss their individual basin wide water plans. The users are...

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On The Colorado Plains, Ag Depends On The Drying Ogallala

Most Colorado cities and farms get water from snowmelt in the Rockies. That's not the case in Northeastern Colorado. This food-producing powerhouse...

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Small Hydro Is Renewable Energy The New Congress Might Just Get Behind

In the rugged peaks outside Silverton, Colorado sits a prime example of the future of hydropower. It's not a behemoth new dam blocking one of America's...

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Long Term Plans For Five Creeks In Boulder County

It's been almost a year and a half since Boulder County was deluged by rain, causing creeks to swell, and, in some cases, create new channels. Now the...

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Tackling Water Quality (And Taste) In Sterling, Colorado

Coloradoans pride themselves on the quality of their drinking water, most of which originates high up in the Rocky Mountains. On the Eastern Plains...

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Oil And Gas Wastewater Presents A Business Opportunity For One Colorado Company

In 2013, Colorado and Wyoming produced around 128 million barrels of oil and a little more than 2.4 billion barrels of wastewater combined. North Dakota...

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Is The Public Engaged When It Comes To Colorado's Water Plan?

In his 2015 State of the State Address, Governor John Hickenlooper lauded the process that brought people together to create the state's water plan,...

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Colorado's Growth Brings A Call To Link Water And Land Planning

Colorado has experienced massive population growth in the last few years, a that trend is projected to continue. Finding enough water to meet the...

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