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This resource鈥� Opening the Tap 鈥攐utlines Environmental Protection Agency programs established or funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that provide financial or technical assistance for the many barriers drinking water or basic sanitation. For some communities, this barrier comes in form of non-existent water infrastructure. In others, existing infrastructure...

In 2024, the Getches-Wilkinson Center and the 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly Climate Science and Education Committee (CSEC) co-chaired a shared governance committee regarding campus energy and climate policy. The Committee was nominated by the University鈥檚 Chief Operating Officer to review and, if appropriate, recommend alternatives to the University鈥檚 plans to upgrade...

The GWC in 2024 is working to revitalize the Colorado River Research Group (CRRG), a group of prominent academics and close colleagues offering an 鈥渋ndependent, scientific voice鈥� on key Colorado River issues. The CRRG was formed in 2014, and has produced policy briefs on many salient subjects, including basin hydrology...

On April 18, 2024, the Bureau of Land Management issued a final rule that will guide future management of 245 million acres of public land, nearly 1/0 th of the country鈥檚 land base. In the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Congress charged BLM with managing public lands...

GWC Water Law Fellow Frannie Monasterio collaborated with four other attorneys (Elizabeth G. Bentley, Elisabeth Parker, Clifford B. Parkinson, and Heather Tanana) on an amicus brief to the Supreme Court filed on behalf of DigDeep and the Utah Tribal Relief Foundation. Download the DigDeep UTRF Amicus Brief here

Berggren, J., J. Fleck, D. Kenney and Mariana Rivera-Torres. 2022. A Pie No More? Building a More Equitable Colorado River Governance Structure. IN: Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact鈥檚 Next Century (edited by Jason Anthony Robison). ISBN-13:978-0-8165-4764-7. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 鈥傗�傗�傗�傗�傗�侷n a wide ranging and...

Kenney, Douglas S., Michael Cohen, John Berggren and Regina M. Buono. 2021. The Colorado River Basin. IN: Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands , (edited by Jurgen Schm andt and Aysegul Kibaroglu). ISBN : 9781108417037. Cambridge University Press. As part of a volume comparing management of major river basins...

The Status of Tribal Water Rights in the Colorado River Basin Water & Tribes Initiative | Colorado River Basin Introduction There are 30 federally recognized tribes in the Colorado River Basin. Twenty two of these tribes have recognized rights to use 3.2 million-acre feet (maf) of Colorado River system water...

Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribes in the Colorado River Basin This report was produced for the Water & Tribes Initiative: Colorado River Basin by Heather Tanana (Lead Author), JD/MPH, Assistant Professor of Law (Research) & Stegner Fellow, Wallace Stegner Center 鈥� S.J. Quinney College of Law 鈥� University...

Kayla Carey and Nathan Stottler are recent graduates of CU鈥檚 Masters of the Environment program specializing in environmental policy. They took Professor Sharon Jacobs鈥� Energy Law and Regulation class this past spring and have prepared their capstone project, Cooperatives at a Crossroads: Identifying the Opportunities and Challenges of Clean Energy...