Nathan Boyer-Rechlin

GWC Welcomes New Acequia Assistance Project Director

Nov. 7, 2024

The Getches-Wilkinson Center is pleased to announce new Acequia Assistance Project Director Nathan Boyer-Rechlin. Nathan succeeds former Director Gregor MacGregor who had been at the helm of the Acequia Assistance Project since 2021. We are grateful to Gregor's contribution to the program and ongoing support of the transition of the...

Colorado River by Chris Winter

Save the Date: 2025 Conference on the Colorado River

Nov. 7, 2024

The Getches-Wilkinson Center and Water & Tribes Initiative will be co-convening the 2025 Conference on the Colorado River on Thurs, June 5th and Fri, June 6th at the Wolf Law Building in Boulder, CO. We hope you join us for what will be sure to be an engaging 2-day conference...

Opening the Tap

Opening the Tap: Accessing EPA’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Water Assistance Programs

Oct. 28, 2024

This resource— Opening the Tap —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. For some communities, this barrier comes in form of non-existent water infrastructure. In others, existing infrastructure...

Andrew Teegarden

American Water Resources Association / Universities Council on Water Resources / National Institutes for Water Resources Conference Updates

Oct. 11, 2024

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...

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Opening the Tap

Oct. 1, 2024

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.

Confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers within Grand Canyon– PC: Rachel Ellis

It’s Time to Amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to include Tribal River Protections

Sept. 16, 2024

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 “outstandingly remarkable...

Andrew Teegarden

Updates from the 2024 Colorado Water Congress Summer Conference

Aug. 29, 2024

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...

Doug Kenney and Chris Winter

GWC’s Colorado River Conference Takes the Spotlight in June

July 29, 2024

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. “ Next Chapters on the Colorado River: Short-Term Coping, Post-2026 Operations, and Beyond ” was co-convened this year with the Water & Tribes Initiative (WTI), marking...

PBS Tipping Point

PBS Special on the Colorado River “Reckoning”

July 24, 2024

The CRRG was well represented in a live PBS event broadcast from Hoover Dam (on July 24, 2024) focused on the Colorado River’s 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...

House Bill 1379 Signing

GWC Helps to fill the “Gap” Left by Sackett

July 24, 2024

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

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