Registration is open for CRWUA 2023
Registration is open for CRWUA 2023 at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel. Registration ⟶Agenda ⟶Exhibits ⟶Hotel ⟶
A Brief History of the Colorado River Water Users Association
Have you read this facsinating CRWUA publication “A Brief History of the Colorado River Water Users Association” which commemorates our 75th Anniversary? Click the link to read the report on the website. “Over the past 75 years, CRWUA has established itself as the most consequential and highest profile gathering of Colorado River stakeholders. To both […]
Save the dates for the 2023 conference!
Save the dates for the annual conference! December 13-15 at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas. Follow us @CRWUAwater on Instagram or check the website (http://crwua.org/index.html) for updates about the topics and speakers. #CRWUA2023 #ColoradoRiver #COriver
Ten Tribes Partnership
The Colorado River Basin Tribes Partnership, also known as the Ten Tribes Partnership (Partnership), is an organization formed in 1992 by 10 federally recognized tribes with reserved water rights in the Colorado River Basin. The member tribes are: Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Jicarilla Apache Nation, Navajo Nation, Chemehuevi […]
Wyoming
As we all know, the continued poor hydrology and low storage volumes in the Colorado River Basin’s main reservoirs has brought additional attention and pressures up and down the Colorado River System in 2022. Because of these conditions, the State of Wyoming has been utilizing its Governor appointed “Colorado River Working Group” (Working Group) to […]
Utah
Utah’s 2022 legislative session concluded with a record number of water conservation bills and appropriations totaling nearly $500 million in spending. Utah’s conservation bills are designed to help bolster water levels in reservoirs throughout the state by reducing demand via a variety of conservation efforts, including required metering of secondary water, agricultural optimization, the nation’s […]
New Mexico
In 2022, the majority of New Mexico counties continue to experience drought conditions, with 90% of the state experiencing extreme to exceptional drought conditions, and current drought patterns that show no signs of changing course. On Nov. 9, 1922, delegates from the seven Colorado River Basin states negotiated the Colorado River Compact that defined the […]
Southern Nevada
Southern Nevada already a global leader in water conservation—has launched some of its most aggressive and innovative conservation programming to date to help shore up Lake Mead levels, which have dropped more than 170 feet amid climate change and a decades-long megadrought. As a result of sinking lake levels, a tier-two federally imposed shortage will […]
Colorado
From the headwaters of the Colorado River to the Four Corners, cooperation in the face of continued dry conditions brought together stakeholders from across Colorado to address important projects for the river’s diverse users. Like other states in the Colorado River Basin, the state of Colorado’s water users had to contend with reduced water availability […]
California
In response to to the unprecedented, climate change-driven drought that has stretched over two decades in the Colorado River Basin, in October California outlined voluntary actions it plans to take to help stabilize storage in the Basin’s major reservoirs. California water agencies that use Colorado River water supplies proposed to conserve up to an additional […]