With less water on the Western Slope and in the Colorado River, the state wants new rules on how to measure and track what’s there
Colorado water managers are making more people track and report how much water they’re using, as decades of drought have diminished supplies on the Western Slope. For the first time, the state is also pushing for new rules that spell out how some rights-holders should measure their water use as each drop of Colorado River water becomes more valuable. Kevin Rein, director of the Colorado Division of Water Resources, presented the rules to a full house at Jackson County’s event center in Walden.
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