Your water
Start with your own water
Type your town or ZIP, or pick a basin on the map, and the page re-lenses to your region.
Find my basin →Colorado Water Connect
One record of who manages Colorado’s water, and how it reaches you
From snowpack in the mountains to the tap in your kitchen, dozens of public bodies decide how the state’s water moves. This site tracks who they are, what they do, and where the record comes from.
9
Basins mapped
51
Organizations documented
48
Relationships sourced
Four ways in
Where to start depends on what you already know
How it works
New to how Colorado manages water?
Four decisions stand between a storm on the Divide and your kitchen sink, laid out in about four minutes.
Read how it works →Who's who
Meet the groups doing the work
Roundtables, watershed groups, districts, and utilities, browsable by basin and by role.
Browse who's who →Get involved
Ready to get involved?
Meetings you can sit in, newsletters, volunteer groups, and people who answer email, by basin.
See ways to get involved →A public record, not a directory
Water in Colorado is owned, planned, funded, and worked on by different people at every step
A water right, a basin plan, a state grant, and a volunteer clean-up day are usually four different organizations. Most residents never see how those pieces connect, or who to talk to about any one of them. Colorado Water Connect lays that structure out basin by basin, with a citation behind every claim.
Who owns the water
A property right, ordered by who claimed it first, kept on ledger by the state engineer.
Who plans ahead
Nine basin roundtables write regional plans and feed them into the statewide water plan.
Who pays for the work
State and federal grant programs fund most local projects, matched with local money.
Who does it on the ground
Watershed groups, districts, and utilities carry out restoration, monitoring, and outreach.
Every relationship is sourced to a public filing, organized by the nine river basins rather than counties, and shown as a gap when we don’t have it — never hidden.
Five real ways in
Join the people behind these numbers
A meeting you can sit in, a newsletter you can read, a group that wants volunteers, a person who answers email. Get Involved lists them by basin.
See how to get involved →