Owns the water
Keeps Colorado's water-rights ledger and enforces priority calls in dry years, from the state engineer's office.
Government agency · statewide
Colorado Division of Water Resources
State agency that administers Colorado water rights, water well permits, dam safety, and interstate water compacts across all seven of the state's water divisions.
Works statewide
Their role in the four decisions
How to read Colorado Division of Water Resources
Plans ahead
Basin roundtables and statewide planning set priorities for supply, rivers, and agriculture.
Pays for the work
State grant programs and statewide funds pay for most local water projects.
Does it on the ground
Watershed groups, utilities, districts, and volunteers do the physical work.
Neighborhood
Who they work with
Each relationship below is read off a public page, not inferred.
Colorado Division of Water Resources is an official cooperator in NRCS's Colorado Snow Survey Program, performing manual snow surveys and feeding data into NRCS's statewide snowpack reports.
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