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On November 20, 2012, the International Boundary and Water Commission of the United States and Mexico signed an agreement termed "Minute 319," which updated the Law of the River to address how the 1,500,000 acre-feet (1.9 km 3) of Colorado River water that Mexico receives every year would be affected by surplus or drought conditions. [47]
The same year, Catlin was assigned to the Water Resources Review Committee, an interim committee that studies the conservation, use, development, financing of the water resources of Colorado, and holding hearing on the Colorado State Water Plan. [12] Term limited in the state house, in 2024 Catlin ran to represent District 5 in the state senate ...
The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado.The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each district having roughly 80 thousand people.
The Colorado legislature founded the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) through the passage of House Bill no. 6 [permanent dead link ] in 1937 for the "purpose of aiding in the protection and development of the waters of the state". The bill decreed that the agency would be run by twelve directors, who convened for the first time on ...
Aspinall became known for his direction of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, of which he was the chairman from 1959 to 1973. Aspinall focused the majority of his efforts on Western land and water issues. [1] His actions supporting resource development often drew the ire of the increasingly powerful environmental lobby in the 1960s.
The state is party to nine interstate water compacts, which legally bind Colorado to deliver specific amounts of water to downstream states. The Colorado River Compact of 1922 , perhaps the most significant of these agreements, requires upper basin states (Colorado, Wyoming , Utah , and New Mexico ) to deliver 7.5 million acre-feet of water ...
The water courts were established by the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969, a state law which created seven water divisions based upon the drainage patterns of Colorado's rivers. Each water division is staffed with a division engineer, appointed by the state engineer; a water judge, appointed by the Supreme Court; a water ...
The terms of the Compact state that once the Elephant Butte reservoir is filled, New Mexico and Colorado are immediately released from any water debt they have accrued. Colorado's debt to New Mexico at the time, 500,000 acre-feet (620,000,000 m 3) of water, was immediately cleared, settling the balance between the two states, but leaving New ...