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A Report from the Acequia Assistance Project The Getches-Wilkinson Center is pleased to present the work of a team of students with the Acequia Assistance Project, who spent the last two years digging into the history, the politics, and law surrounding attempts to export water from the San Luis Valley...

Kenney, Douglas S. 2020. The Changing Fate of Western Rivers: The Case of the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ. IN: The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands (edited by Erika Allen Wolters and Brent S. Steel). Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.       In a volume primarily devoted to western lands, this chapter explores...

The second episode of the GWI Global Water Matters podcast features Anne Castle ('81), member of the Water Policy Group and senior fellow at the GWC. In conversation with producer Gretchen Miller, Castle discusses the management and future of the over-allocated Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ River Basin, its many competing interests, her personal...

New Study of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ River Cutback Risks by GWC Senior Fellow Anne Castle and University of New Mexico Water Resources Program Director John Fleck. With a credible risk that declines in the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ River’s flow could force water curtailments in coming decades in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ and the rest of the Upper...

See the full white paper here: Energy Emergencies vs. Manufactured Crises: The Limits of Federal Authority to Disrupt Power Markets by Ari Peskoe and Sharon Jacobs We live in an age of governance by emergency. In February, President Trump declared a national emergency to build a wall on the southern...

The Getches-Wilkinson Center, in conjunction with many collaborators, has a strong interest in promoting the implementation of the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Water Plan (CWP). This entails work on several subjects, including agricultural water conservation and transfers, integrated land and water planning (including watershed planning), and improved Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ River management. Read the most...

A report on lessons learned from the Merian Mine prepared by an Expert Advisory Panel, organized by RESOLVE. Read the Case Study .

A roundtable discussion featuring a diverse group of expert water jurists, water lawyers, water engineers, state water officials, and academics on Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ water law and Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ water policy. The workshop discussed one aspect of the state’s water law that is seen by some as impeding the type of flexibility needed...

In the spring of 2015 the Getches-Wilkinson Center convened a group of renowned water policy experts to conduct a detailed review of the draft of the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ State Water Plan, with an emphasis on plan implementation, water management, climate change adaptation, and public water uses. This report reviews the current...