Colorado Water Conservation Board/Courtesy photo
Click the link to go to the Colorado Water Trust website. Here’s an excerpt:
This process offers a streamlined approach to water transactions to benefit the environment on streams throughout the state. We invite water rights owners to explore options to use their water rights for streamflow restoration purposes.
Voluntary water sharing arrangements or voluntary acquisitions of senior water rights, on a temporary or permanent basis, can help restore flows to rivers in need, sustain agriculture, and maximize beneficial uses of Colorado’s water.
The Request for Water Process has several goals:
To invite voluntary water offers from willing water rights owners to benefit streamflows To provide a user-friendly mechanism for water rights owners to explore working with CWCB and the Colorado Water Trust on water acquisitions and transactions that will benefit the natural environment To streamline transaction processes and utilization of resources To facilitate implementation of Colorado’s Water Plan objectives To add flows to river segments in need while coordinating with agricultural and other water uses This Process is confidential, completely voluntary and open to all water right owners, including agricultural, municipal, industrial, or other users.
PRELIMINARY OFFERS OF WATER ARE DUE JUNE 30, 2022.