Things are about to get tougher for the state Division of Water Resources in enforcing water rights in the coming year, after the House Appropriations Committee killed a bill to fund four of the 10 water commissioners who monitor headgates and water rights. The appropriations committee voted Friday morning to kill HB 1006, sponsored by Rep. Kathleen Curry, I-Gunnison.

Colorado water officials are optimistic that a California court ruling invalidating a conservation plan won't derail agreements affecting seven Western states. Dick Wolfe, director of the Colorado Division of Water Resources, said Tuesday that water officials have shown a "collective will" to overcome obstacles.

Small wells on mountain lots are continuing to create headaches - both for the owners of the wells and the state Division of Water Resources.

The Colorado Division of Water Resources (CDWR) has a number of new services available.

Bruce Whitehead, Executive Director of both the Southwestern Water Conservation District and the Animas-La Plata Water Conservancy District, was selected to be the newest Senator from Senate District 6 representing Southwest Colorado.

Developers who divided land in the Deer Mountain Ranch (Pikes Peak area) in the 1970s to sell it for houses never built a pipeline required by their court-approved water augmentation plan. And the state has decided residents are on the hook to build it, despite the fact no one lived there when the plan was approved and most have arrived only in the past few years.