“Building resilience in the face of climate change is about protecting our way of life in Colorado, our rivers, forests, farms and ranches, our homes, and our communities.”
Jon Goldin Dubois
President, Western Resource Advocates
In Colorado, transfer of water from one type of use to another is a historical necessity and will...
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Dear Citizens of Chaffee County, As Nestlé Waters North America seeks an extension of our 1041...
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After multiple hearings, much testimony, technical jargon, and hyperbole about whether the 1041...
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Chaffee County Commissioners regularly have to handle controversial issues – development of land, land use regulations, health regulations in the COVID-19 pandemic, to name only some.
The proposed renewal of a 1041 permit to allow Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) to continue to pump water from the Ruby Springs Aquifer in the north county is one of the more contentious issues to come before the commissioners in recent history.
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Over the past 20 plus years, I have written many articles on water rights and water allocation in...
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Larry Lawrence, Resource Manager for Nestlé Waters North America, Inc. left, gestures while...
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When the law calls for public hearings and the topic is controversial, how can that be done safely...
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Bipartisan legislation to fix up national parks and fully fund efforts to acquire and protect...
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“What has been happening is a recognition and an understanding that these upper basins of our major river systems of the state are where the big, forested watersheds are. A lot of those are like ours – not in the best of health and at risk for wildfire. We need to focus more attention on those challenges, as we’ve done through the Envision process here.”
Greg Felt
Just appointed to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
In a sign that perhaps Nestlé Water might not find its Chaffee County 1041 permit renewal quite as...
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Vote counts on election night were too close to call for Proposition DD, which proposed to place a...
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