From the Sky-Hi Daily News:
A campaign to help save the Colorado River is supplying $40,000 to causes that aim to protect the Upper Colorado River. Of that money, three-fourths has been donated to the Colorado Environmental Coalition to address new transbasin diversion threats “which have given the Upper Colorado River the dubious distinction of being named one of the ‘Most Endangered Rivers in America’ for 2010.” The Coalition’s “Colorado River Protection Campaign” will “aggressively promote water conservation in Denver and Front Range cities as an alternative water supply source.”
Meanwhile, about $10,000 was donated to the American Whitewater Association, “to protect streamflows — thus boating opportunities — in the Upper Colorado River.”
Called “The Save the Colorado River Campaign Fund,” the nonprofit Colorado River advocacy organization announced its grants for 2010, totaling $150,000 donated to 10 environmental groups from the top of the river basin all the way to the bottom — all working to protect and restore the Colorado River…
The Save the Colorado Campaign Fund also made a grant to the Glen Canyon Institute in Utah for its “Fill Lake Mead First” project, an effort to address the dwindling water levels in both Lake Powell and Lake Mead. The effort may also provide more stable water supplies to Nevada, Arizona, and Southern California…
Additional funding went to:
• Grand Canyon Trust to protect the Colorado River flowing through one of America’s crown jewels, Grand Canyon National Park.
• Citizens for Dixie’s Future in Utah to address the threat of the Lake Powell Pipeline which will drain even more water from the Colorado River.
• Sheep Mountain Alliance in Colorado to protect stream flows and water rights on a tributary of the Colorado River.
• Sonoran Institute of Tucson to try to create an instream flow program for the Colorado River Delta.
• Earthjustice, the environmental law firm in Denver which is working to protect river flows throughout the basin.
More Colorado River Basin coverage here.