A Colorado Water Trial Could Decide the Future of an Agricultural Valley

Water regulators and farmers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley are in a lose-lose situation. Either they adopt a plan to aggressively manage the use of groundwater from their rapidly declining aquifer, likely forcing a contraction of the local agricultural economy, or continue overpumping and further…

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38d Inside Climate News A Colorado Water Trial Could Decide the Future of an Agricultural Valley — Water regulators and farmers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley are in a lose-lose situation. Either they adopt a plan to aggressively manage the use of groundwater…

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climate.colostate.edu Co Wateryear2018 (climate.colostate.edu)

rgwcd.org 12 19 2011 Approval 10Sa224 (rgwcd.org)

usgs.gov Spatial variability in seasonal snowpack trends across the Rio Grande headwaters (1984 - 2017)

Appeared in: 2026-10-04 (#3) · 2026-10-05 (#6)

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