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Save The Colorado Update: Hold Officials Accountable!
Sent April 4th 2013
Save The Colorado Update: Hold Officials Accountable! Hi Friends of the Colorado River! When public officials do the right thing to support the Colorado River, we like to let them know. When they do the wrong thing, we also like to let them know. In San Diego, one right thing is happening so we are happy to thank the Mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner, and two members of the City Council for continuing to move forwardwith a water recycling program and facility. Two weeks ago, the Council's Natural Resource Commi...
Save The Colorado River Update: Help Change The Course!
Sent March 27th 2013
Save The Colorado River Update: Help Change The Course! Hi Friends of the Colorado River! What can you do to help the Colorado River and its tributaries today? Take The Pledge! We are delighted to let you know that a new effort to protect and restore the Colorado River and its tributaries has launched through National Georgraphic and its partners called"Change The Course." For each person that pledges to reduce their water use, NatGeo and its partners will restore 1,000 gallons of water back to the...
Save The Colorado Update: Water Conservation Makes All The News
Sent March 20th 2013
Save The Colorado Update: Water Conservation Makes All The News Hi Friends of the Colorado River! With another drought looming throughout the Southwest U.S., water conservation is making all of the news. First, two conservation groups,Citizens for Dixie's FutureandWesternResource Advocates, just rolled out a new report titled "The Local Waters Alternative To The Lake Powell Pipeline." This report highlights that Southwest Utah cities can get 60% of the water they need for the future just by conserving....
Save The Colorado Editorial: "Advice for Jewell on protecting Colorado River"
Sent March 11th 2013
Save The Colorado Editorial: "Advice for Jewell on protecting Colorado River" Hi Friends of the Colorado River! Please enjoy this editorial that appeared in theSan Diego Union-Tribunelast week. Thanks! *********************************** Advice for Jewell on protecting Colorado River By Gary Wockner March 7, 2013 President Obamas pick for Interior secretary could be a stroke of genius. Sally Jewell, a former CEO in the outdoor recreation industry, will inherit a job that is one of the b...
Save The Colorado River Action Alert: Tell Governor Hickenlooper "Start With Conservation"
Sent March 6th 2013
Save The Colorado River Action Alert: Tell Governor Hickenlooper "Start With Conservation" Hello Friends of the Colorado River! Please click here to tell Governor John Hickenlooper: Focus on water conservation in Colorado! The Colorado River begins in the state of Colorado, and thats where policies to protect the Colorado River should also begin! In January in his State of the State speech, Governor Hickenlooper spoke about Colorados water supply challenges. He made a bold statement:Every discussio...
Save The Colorado River Update: All Eyes on Lake Powell?
Sent March 1st 2013
Save The Colorado River Update: All Eyes on Lake Powell? Hello Friends of the Colorado River! Lake Powell made a lot of news the past few weeks. As you know, Lake Powell is not a natural lake, but the massive reservoir created by Glen Canyon Dam just upstream fromthe Grand Canyon along the Colorado River. First, the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline -- an effort to divert nearly 100,000 acre feet of water out of the Lake and pipe it 139 miles to southwest Utah -- received a blow when the Utah Governor's office predi...
Save The Colorado Update: Colorado River Movies, Jewell's, and More!
Sent February 21st 2013
Save The Colorado Update: Colorado River Movies, Jewell's, and More! Hello Friends of the Colorado River! Need a movie night to get through these waning winter evenings? Well, we have one that's free online and all about the Colorado River. The intrepid young adventurersformerly from Colorado College, Will Stauffer-Norris and Zak Podmore, recently released all 10 episodes of their journey paddling from the source of the Colorado River down to the Sea of Cortez. Titled "Remains Of A River," Will and Zak...
Save The Colorado Update: Flaming Gorge Pipeline Suffers Another Major Setback
Sent February 6th 2013
Save The Colorado Update: Flaming Gorge Pipeline Suffers Another Major Setback Hi Friends of the Colorado River!Some good news last week from the State of Colorado, which had proposed to continue providing funding to study the Flaming Gorge Pipeline. The Pipeline proposed to drain massive amounts of water out of the Green River at Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Southwestern Wyoming, pipe and pump that water 500 miles across Wyoming, and down to fuel and subsidize sprawl in the Denver region of Colorado. Last week t...
Save The Colorado River Update! Water conservation poll, drought, and Outdoor Retailers Show
Sent January 29th 2013
Save The Colorado River Update! Water conservation poll, drought, and Outdoor Retailers Show Hello Friends of the Colorado River! Last week a major poll was released showing that the people of Colorado want their governments to focus on water conservation rather than new large diversions and pipelines from Colorado's already depleted rivers. The poll, conducted by a highly reputable bipartisan polling firm with support from the business groupProtect The Flows, was covered in regional media around the basin. As ...
Save The Colorado River 2013 Update!
Sent January 8th 2013
Save The Colorado River 2013 Update! Hello Friends of the Colorado River! Happy New Year! We hope to help bring forward a good year in 2013 for the Colorado River to protect and restore this great resource for fish and wildlife and future generations of people! To that end, the new year has started off well in Boulder County, Colorado. On January 7th, the Boulder County Commissioners turned down a proposal to support the City ofDenver's proposed Moffat Collection System Project which would take 18,000 acre f...
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