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Colorado Water Trust
Colorado Water Trust
* (“CWT”) is a non-profit conservation organization based in the state of Colorado. Its mission is to engage in and support voluntary, market-based efforts to restore and protect streamflows using permanent acquisitions of water, leases of water, and physical solutions. CWT is also a resource to Colorado land trusts encountering water issues in connection with their land conservation activities.
== History ==
In 1973, the Colorado General Assembly recognized the need to “correlate the activities of mankind with some reasonable preservation of the natural environment”〔Colorado Revised Statutes §37-92-102(3)〕 and created the state’s Instream Flow Program with the passage of Senate Bill 97 (“SB 97”). SB 97 gave the Colorado Water Conservation Board (“CWCB”) the exclusive authority to hold instream flow water rights. Prior to enactment of this law, the legal status of instream flow water rights was the subject of debate. Use of water in Colorado is governed by the Prior Appropriation Doctrine wherein water rights are assigned priorities and decreed by the Colorado water courts, courts of special jurisdiction within the state. With the passage of SB 97, using water rights to preserve and protect streams was confirmed as legitimate and lawful, although only the CWCB could use water rights for those activities. In all respects these water rights called instream flows are treated just like more traditional water rights. They belong to specific stretches of river; have specific flow amounts; are held as property and monitored; and have priority dates, so they are administered within the “first in time, first in right” system. Additionally, when a water right is changed for use in the Instream Flow Program in Colorado water court, it retains its priority date; for example, a senior irrigation right becomes a senior instream flow right. SB 97 was hailed as a powerful tool for the protection of Colorado’s rivers, but many felt that the program it created was underutilized. In 2000, a group of water attorneys, engineers, and conservationists began to meet to brainstorm ways to bolster the program. The meetings culminated in the founding of the Colorado Water Trust in 2001. The founders envisioned CWT acting as a facilitator for the state’s Instream Flow Program, taking on transfer processes such as due diligence investigations and providing additional avenues of funding for instream flow water transactions.
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