The Institute’s Water Reports and Research
Water
in 2025
The Rocky Mountain West continually faces complicated and rapidly changing
water policy challenges. Today, water issues are fundamentally about
the people of the West, and the diverse beliefs and values that they
hold. To illustrate how beliefs and values are connected to water challenges,
this paper highlights the results of two surveys given to 84 stakeholders
in Colorado.
Tactics
for Negotiating Agreements
Negotiation has been used in many natural resource dialogues, including
a wide range of watershed issues. A negotiation framework has many different
shapes, drawing not only from the most traditional negotiation literature,
but also from literature on mediation, facilitation, policy dialogues,
consensus processes, decision-rules, and information and fact gathering
processes. This paper explores approaches to collaborative decision-making
with an emphasis on their similarities and differences to one another.
Water Research by Faculty: Policy implications of recent water-related research.
Public Land Values by John Loomis, Vicki Rameker, and Andy Seidl
Water Quality and Land Use Planning by Xinhao Wang
Watershed Management by Amy Harig and Kurt Fausch
Winter Precipitation by Steven Fassnacht
Water Activities at Colorado State University
Colorado State Forest Service
The Forest Service provides for natural resource protection in mountains, plains, and urban settings from damaging effects of fire, insects, disease, wind, water, and people.
CSU Cooperative Extension – Water Resources
Educational resources addressing water issues in the Rocky Mountain West.
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
The Institute brings the water expertise of higher education to the evolving water concerns and problems being faced by Colorado citizens.
Drought.Colostate.Edu
Responding to state and national needs, the University has focused their wide-ranging expertise on increasing the drought knowledge in order to provide critical information to government leaders, businesses and individuals as they plan for and manage drought events.Sociology Water Lab
The Lab brings applied and hands-on assistance to water providers, the rural community, and agricultural producers.The Water Archive
The archive consists of collections from individuals and organizations that have been instrumental in the development of water resources in Colorado and the West.
The Water Center at Colorado State University:
The Water Center provides a means for Colorado State to translate its heritage and capabilities into programs of value to its students and other constituents.
Water Knowledge
Educational fact sheets about water.
Water Activities and Resources in the State of Colorado
Colorado Climate Center
The Center assists the state of Colorado in monitoring climate over time scales of weeks to years to help reduce the state's vulnerability to climate variability and change.
Colorado Foundation for Water Education
The Foundation is a statewide non-profit organization providing balanced and accurate information and education about Colorado’s water resources.
Colorado Water for the 21st Century
In 2005, the Colorado General Assembly created nine basin roundtables and an interbasin compact committee to serve as the primary bodies for on-going discussions related to the needs within each basin and the basins’ interaction with each other.
Colorado Watershed Network
The CWN works.3 to promote the health of Colorado’s watersheds through nonbiased and community based science.
Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network
The Network is a unique, non-profit, community-based network of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds working together to measure and map precipitation (rain, hail and snow).
Statewide Water Supply Initiative
A basin by basin investigation of Colorado’s existing and future water resources conducted by the Colorado Water Conservation Board.
Western Water Assessment
The WWA examines regional vulnerabilities to climate variability and change, and develops information, products and processes to assist water-resource decision-makers throughout the Intermountain West.
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