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Located just west of Carter Lake in southern Larmier County, the new reservoir will hold 90,000 acre-feet (110,000,000 cubic meters) of water, water that will be used for municipal water supply for nine municipalities and three water districts on Colorado's Front Range. The $690 million project is the first major dam to be built in Colorado in ...
In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the ...
The water courts are divisions of the district courts in that basin. Water judges are district court judges appointed by the Colorado Supreme Court. The water courts have exclusive subject-matter jurisdiction in the determination of water rights, the use and administration of water, and all other water matters within the jurisdiction of the ...
A tentative agreement between Arizona, California and Nevada to reduce water use from the Colorado River by 3 million acre-feet over three years falls short of what is needed, according to experts.
Arizona and Nevada will maintain the current cutbacks to their water usage from the Colorado River for the next year but will not be facing any imminent increases in conservation requirements, the ...
The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km) water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California– Arizona border, west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the ...
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will continue to live with less water next year from the Colorado River after the U.S. government on Thursday announced water cuts that preserve the status quo. The ...
View of Lake Granby (front) and Shadow Mountain Lake, the primary West Slope reservoirs Waterpipes near Flatiron Reservoir in Larimer County. The Colorado–Big Thompson Project (abbreviated C-BT) is a federal water diversion project in Colorado designed to collect West Slope mountain water from the headwaters of the Colorado River and divert it to Colorado's Front Range and plains.