Click the link to read the article on The Durango Herald website (Christian Burney). Here’s an excerpt:
Future water management cannot be organized how it is presently or as it was in the past, said Celene Hawkins, Durango resident and The Nature Conservancy’s new Colorado River Program director…
“It’s a really scary time to be living in the basin and trying to help with water management at a time where there’s so much fear and stress,” she said.
Directing the Colorado River Program, Hawkins will lead teams working within seven U.S. states, 30 tribal nations and Mexico. Programs range from on-the-ground conservation projects to basinwide policy issues and interstate negotiations.