On Wine and Water with Author Patty Limerick
Patty Limerick, author of A Ditch in Time will speak at Come to the Well on Wednesday, March 6. Come to the Well: Conversations on Wine and Water promises to be an evening of food, drink and...
View ArticleHistory & Today’s Water Decisions
Ever wonder how history guides water management today? Join Colorado State University’s Public Lands History Center and the Water Resources Archives at CSU Libraries for Coping with Extremes: the 1st...
View ArticleWater for Food- Food for Life: Ditch and Reservoir Company Convention
(Photo credit: Jeffrey Beall) Make the trip to Grand Junction March 6-8 for the Ditch and Reservoir Company Alliance’s 11th annual convention, taking place at the Two Rivers Convention Center. By...
View ArticleThoughts on the Climate and Colorado’s Water Future Workshop
By Sabrina Kliman, OSM/VISTA with Colorado River Watch, and the one scholarship recipient who was able to attend the Colorado Foundation for Water Education’s Climate and Colorado’s Water Future...
View ArticleCFWE 2013 President’s Reception
The Colorado Foundation for Water Education’s 2013 President’s Award Reception is shaping up to be an enticing event. The delicious food and drinks have been ordered, History Colorado is prepping...
View ArticleMany Controversies Surround the Colorado River. Explore Diverse Perspectives...
It’s been a dry year. Although late-spring snowfalls brought snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin to 94 percent of average, the Colorado River runs dry in the delta. Today, the mighty Colorado...
View ArticleThe Cool of the Arkansas River
Arkansas River in Salida, Colorado (Photo credit: Wikipedia) An essay called River home by Eduardo Rey Brummel was published in the latest edition of High Country News. Brummel captures the gorgeous...
View ArticleTour the Lower Colorado River Basin next week to learn about water issues
It’s been a dry year. Although late-spring snowfalls brought snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin to more than 100 percent of normal, the mighty Colorado River, with its headwaters in Colorado,...
View ArticleWhy You Should Join Us For CFWE’s Upper Colorado River Basin Tour
Blue River Basin Water Commissioner Troy Wineland shares highlights from the Colorado Foundation for Water Education’s Lower Colorado Basin Tour and invites attendees to tour his home-basin during next...
View ArticleSummer Heats up With Water Tours
Tour participants on CFWE’s most recent Upper Colorado Basin Tour. Register now to attend the last tour of the summer, the Platte Tour. The Colorado Foundation for Water Education is preparing for the...
View ArticleTour de Drought in the Arkansas River Basin
Wide open spaces, dust blowing against a dark gray soon-to-rain backdrop, a few cattle in the distance, some puddles from recent rains, green weeds or sparse grass in certain fields and the sweet smell...
View ArticleWater Rates: New Financial Sustainability Tool and Webinar
The cost of everything has increased- movie tickets, food, and of course water rates– making the cost of water a source of contention from time to time. Still, people don’t always realize how much is...
View ArticleSeminar to Examine Snowpack Decline and the Challenges that Creates
The Colorado River District’s Annual Water Seminar – “Shrinking in Supply, Growing in Demand” — takes place 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, at the Two Rivers Convention Center in Grand...
View ArticleTapping the Rockies: Water for Beer
Participants of CFWE’s Bottled Beverage Tour. Today, an NBC News story No Water, No Beer takes us back to last year’s bottled beverage tour, where 50 participants visited and heard from MillerCoors,...
View ArticleRegister for the Colorado WaterWise Water Conservation Summit
The agenda for the Colorado WaterWise 5th Annual Water Conservation Summit and pre-conference workshop is posted and registration is open. Attend the summit to learn about “SMART” landscape water...
View ArticleOn the road again…
By Kristin Maharg, Program Manager, CFWE Someone recently noted to me that it’s obvious I love water tours. It’s true… nothing is more satisfying than spending months of research, planning,...
View ArticleWater: What is the New Normal?
By Jennie Geurts, Administrative Assistant, CFWE CFWE’s Program Assistant Jennie Geurts The Sustaining Colorado Watersheds Conference is only a week away. This year’s theme is “Water: What is the New...
View ArticleThis week’s South Platte Forum & Flood Fundraiser
The annual South Platte Forum is coming up later this week. There’s still time to register and learn the ins and outs of the South Platte Basin. Think you can make it? Or maybe just one evening? On...
View ArticleSinkholes, Students and Santa Rosa
By Nona Shipman, One World One Water Center MSU Denver “Whatever happened to Santa Rosa, New Mexico?” In 100 years, questioning the existence of an entire town in New Mexico may not be that shocking....
View ArticleIt’s Colorado Gives Day! 6 Great Reasons to Support CFWE TODAY
The most wonderful time of the year– Colorado Gives Day is a magical 24-hours when you can increase the impact of your year-end donation to your favorite (water) nonprofits. So…Support the Colorado...
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