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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...

Water Law Fellow Andrew Teegarden, traveled to St. Louis to attend the annual Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) water conference. This year was extra special because it was the 60th anniversary of UCOWR! The conference discussed water issues from the prospectives of academia on a variety of exciting topics...

Opening the Tap: Accessing EPA's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Water Assistance Programs has been published on the GWC blog ! This resource outlines 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.

A co-published blog by American Rivers and the Getches-Wilkinson Center at Colorado Law. The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 has been the preeminent tool to protect free-flowing rivers in the United States since it was passed more than 50 years ago. Under the Act, rivers with 鈥渙utstandingly remarkable...

Last week, Getches-Wilkinson Center Water Law Fellow Andrew Teegarden, attended the 2024 Colorado Water Congress Summer Conference in Colorado Springs. As is typical, the conference started with various workshops which covered a range of topics but the most directly related to our work at the Getches-Wilkinson Center was the session...

On June 6-7, a record crowd of 365 in-person and 100 online registrants assembled for the 44th Annual Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources. 鈥� Next Chapters on the Colorado River: Short-Term Coping, Post-2026 Operations, and Beyond 鈥� was co-convened this year with the Water & Tribes Initiative (WTI), marking...

The CRRG was well represented in a live PBS event broadcast from Hoover Dam (on July 24, 2024) focused on the Colorado River鈥檚 challenges. John Fleck and Jack Schmidt were part of a line-up that also included Bruce Babbitt, JB Hamby, Mark Kelly, Karen Kwon, Pat Mulroy, Jim Lochhead, and...

This May, Governor Polis signed into law bipartisan legislation protecting Colorado鈥檚 wetlands and streams in the wake of the Supreme Court鈥檚 Sackett decision. Handed down in 2023, Sackett redefined 鈥渨aters of the United States鈥� and rolled back federal protections for isolated wetlands and ephemeral and intermittent streams, which are especially...

The latest publication from the Center for Colorado River Studies looks back at the 2024 runoff season (mid-April to early July), observing that the basin netted only a modest bump in storage of 2.5 maf, a significant volume but much lower than the unusually wet 2023 season. However, combined with...

The Colorado River Research Group (CRRG), founded and again chaired by the GWC鈥檚 Doug Kenney, resumed activities this Spring, headlined by the publication in May of its latest policy brief entitled: Imagining the River We Deserve: How the Post-2026 Rulemaking is Only One Step Towards Sustainability . In a nutshell,...