State ramps up water measurement on Western Slope
The state of Colorado is ramping up an effort to measure water use on the Western Slope, developing rules and standards and rolling out a grant program to help water users pay for diversion measurement devices. With input from water users, officials from the Colorado Division of Water Resources are creating technical guidance for each of the four major Western Slope river basins on how agricultural water users should measure the water they take from streams. … The push for more-accurate measurement comes at a time when there is increasing competition for dwindling water supplies, as well as growing pressure on the Colorado River’s Upper Basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) to conserve water.
Other Colorado River Basin news:
- Sky-Hi News (Granby, Colo.): Colorado’s latest snowfall offers relief, but long-range La Niña outlook stays warm
- Sibley’s Rivers: Blog: Romancing the river — why am I ‘romancing’ it?
