Category: Agriculture

Finding Water In a Warming World

March 4, 2019 by Nelson Harvey

Joe Docheff hauls silage Friday on his family's dairy farm east of Longmont. Docheff rents some water from the city for crops on his land. Docheff also manages some Longmont agricultural open space properties that are watered with Colorado-Big Thompson units. (Lewis Geyer / Longmont Times-Call Staff Photographer)

Front Range farmers look to cities to lease water as prices surge

February 6, 2019 by Water Education Colorado

Technicians surveying the central Platte River for interior least tern and piping plover nesting and foraging activities. Credit: Platte River Recovery Implementation Program.

Innovative Platte River recovery effort seeks more time, money from Congress

January 9, 2019 by Jerd Smith

The Colorado River flows through Colorado's Grand Valley on the West Slope.

Historic Colorado River drought accord unveiled

October 10, 2018 by Jerd Smith

Fishing at a park in Wray, Colorado. Credit: City of Wray.

Bill to expand Republican River water district headed to lawmakers

October 3, 2018 by Larry Morandi

A center pivot irrigates a field in the San Luis Valley. Tensions have been high in the valley since Front Range developers proposed moving water out of the valley to metro Denver. Fresh Water News, along with PBS documentary series This American Land, traveled to the valley as part of a new partnership. Credit: Jerd Smith

Drought slams $15M voluntary conservation effort in Colorado potato country

September 26, 2018 by Jerd Smith

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