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agriculture Colorado community benefits
Building a More Resilient Plateau Valley
Today, the major concern for the Collbran Conservancy District, the Bureau of Reclamation, and UWCD, is the Parker Basin Slide—enormous maw eating into a steep slope and creeping to within one hundred feet of the critical South Side canal and syphon.
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California data & technology efficiency
SCADA Changes the Game
District Manager Brad Kirby saves on O&M with the remote capabilities of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
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agriculture collaboration community benefits
Restoring the Hood River Watershed
Three decades of collaborative restoration in the Hood River Watershed.
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Finding Common Ground
Practically predestined for a life on the land, seventh-generation cattleman Curtis Martin has always been known as a tough defender of water rights for ranchers and landowners.
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conservation efficiency labor
Ditching the Ditch-Walking Way of Life
Without ditch walkers, water doesn’t make it to farms and the system gets damaged.
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community benefits conservation efficiency
Planning for the Next 100 Years of Water Delivery
Erling Juel’s vision for modernization in Montana’s massive Greenfields Irrigation District.
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collaboration community benefits leadership
The Right Leader for the Right Time
Leading Hermiston Irrigation District through their next round of modernization projects was a challenge tailor-made for retired district manager Annette Kirkpatrick’s problem solving and collaborative approach.
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community benefits conservation data & technology
Adapting with Technology and Grit
Horsefly Irrigation District Manager Justin Eary and his small staff are taking a hands-on approach to modernizing their district.
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Colorado conservation energy
Building Water Resilience on Tribal Lands
In arid southwest Colorado on Ute Mountain Ute Land, a landscape of high desert plains, buttes, and rugged canyons leading to 14,000-foot peaks, water is sacred.
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