With a warming climate and more water being taken out for growing communities, the West’s rivers and lakes are in danger of drying up.
Changing the way we use water from the Colorado River is crucial if we want to save the West’s hardest working river.
Conserving water and reducing wasted water are the cheapest, fastest, and most reliable ways to secure our water supplies and protect the health of rivers and lakes.
Thanks to WRA’s successful advocacy, we secured the Colorado Water Conservation Board’s continued support for Colorado’s instream flow water rights program which protects water in rivers for the benefit of fish, wildlife and the larger environment. WRA worked with the Board not to reduce or “carve out” water for speculative diversion and development from water… Read more »
WRA spearheaded the effort to secure funding for a water reuse project that will help to increase water reuse in Colorado. The project received a commitment of $300,000 from the Colorado Water Conservation Board, several cities, and others. More reuse of existing supplies helps keep more water in our rivers!
WRA and its partners successfully redrafted the Water Rights Protection Act to include language protecting bypass flows at dams and diversions on public lands. This important legislation will protect fish and wildlife by ensuring bypass flows around or through dams and diversions on public lands. This is an important win for fish and wildlife!
The activity of water users can impact the temperature of our rivers (e.g., taking water out and putting it back in at a different temperature). When rivers get too hot or too cold, fish and other aquatic life can die. Based on information and input from WRA and its partners, the Water Quality Control Commission… Read more »
This report provides immediate actions and longer term solutions for addressing Lake Mead’s falling water levels and for ensuring that Arizona’s agriculture, cities, Indian tribes, economy, and environment thrive in a future with less water.
Deming can meet its future water needs without tapping the Gila River. This factsheet outlines how non-diversion solutions like water conservation, reuse, and existing commitments to transfer water from agriculture can secure water supplies for future generations, while saving taxpayer money and protecting fish, wildlife, outdoor recreation, and our economy.
We must ensure implementation of the plan in order to protect our rivers, accelerate urban conservation, improve aging agricultural infrastructure, and make water management more flexible.
This study provides important information to the Verde Valley community on how wells in the area impact river and stream flow and on opportunities for well users to manage their water use to help keep rivers and streams healthy.
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