Tag: Gary Wockner
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Does a river have rights? | Vince Bzdek
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Does a river have rights? That very question came to a roaring head recently in the little town of Nederland. Our country, of course, is based on the idea of “natural rights,” which the founders identified as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as…
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Hickenlooper-Barrasso bill aims to reauthorize Colorado River water conservation plan
U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and John Barrasso are teaming up on legislation to help the upper basin states of the Colorado River in their quest to meet the demands by the Bureau of Reclamation to conserve water. The legislation from the Denver Democrat and Wyoming Republican would reauthorize the System Conservation Pilot Program through 2026, to…
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Colorado’s age-old water doctrine pushed to the brink by drought
Editor’s Note: This story is a collaborative report by Fresh Water News working with nine other Colorado news outlets. In Evans, four miles south of Greeley, houses are shooting up. Once a quiet farm town, Evans is scrambling to come up with enough water to slake the thirst of hundreds of new homeowners, drawn here…
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FORT COLLINS | A decades-long struggle over the future of the Poudre River nears its boiling point
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Welcome to Fort Collins, Colorado, where the Cache La Poudre River, a resource for recreation and industry, flows through town. (Video by Katie Klann) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “Colorado River Towns | Fort Collins”, “description”: “Welcome to Fort Collins, Colorado, where the Cache…