The Utah Division of Water Rights is reviewing an application to repurpose a Green River–basin water right for municipal use that could draw from the Colorado River near Cisco, where a new residential community is proposed off Interstate 70 about an hour from Moab. The San Juan Water Conservancy District filed the change application July 1, requesting permission to convert Water Right 91-5233 from power generation — originally allocated for a nuclear power plant that was never built — to municipal use.

Other Colorado River Basin news:

• The Land Desk: Blog: Et tu, Cisco? Developer looks to turn Utah “ghost town” into “our town.”
• Daily Independent (Sun City, Ariz.): Arizona water faces uncertain future
• Arizona Capitol Times (Phoenix): Bruce Babbitt: The ‘Godfather’ of Arizona water