The GWC has developed a substantial body of pioneering research, articles, books, conferences, workshops, and public lectures. The publications listed here include ones that GWC staff have contributed to in collaboration with our partners.

Opening the Tap

Opening the Tap: Accessing EPA鈥檚 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Water Assistance Programs

Oct. 28, 2024

This resource鈥 Opening the Tap 鈥攐utlines Environmental Protection Agency programs established or funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that provide financial or technical assistance for the many barriers drinking water or basic sanitation. For some communities, this barrier comes in form of non-existent water infrastructure. In others, existing infrastructure...

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WDEP Shared Governance Committee Final Report

Oct. 23, 2024

In 2024, the Getches-Wilkinson Center and the Boulder Faculty Assembly Climate Science and Education Committee (CSEC) co-chaired a shared governance committee regarding campus energy and climate policy. The Committee was nominated by the University鈥檚 Chief Operating Officer to review and, if appropriate, recommend alternatives to the University鈥檚 plans to upgrade...

river and rafters

蜜糖直播 River Research Group Looking Beyond the 2026 Rulemaking

May 24, 2024

The GWC in 2024 is working to revitalize the 蜜糖直播 River Research Group (CRRG), a group of prominent academics and close colleagues offering an 鈥渋ndependent, scientific voice鈥 on key 蜜糖直播 River issues. The CRRG was formed in 2014, and has produced policy briefs on many salient subjects, including basin hydrology...

Bears Ears

A Legal Analysis of the Public Lands Rule

April 19, 2024

On April 18, 2024, the Bureau of Land Management issued a final rule that will guide future management of 245 million acres of public land, nearly 1/0 th of the country鈥檚 land base. In the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Congress charged BLM with managing public lands...

Amicus Brief

DigDeep UTRF Amicus Brief

May 22, 2023

GWC Water Law Fellow Frannie Monasterio collaborated with four other attorneys (Elizabeth G. Bentley, Elisabeth Parker, Clifford B. Parkinson, and Heather Tanana) on an amicus brief to the Supreme Court filed on behalf of DigDeep and the Utah Tribal Relief Foundation. Download the DigDeep UTRF Amicus Brief here

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Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the 蜜糖直播 River Compact鈥檚 Next Century

Dec. 1, 2022

Berggren, J., J. Fleck, D. Kenney and Mariana Rivera-Torres. 2022. A Pie No More? Building a More Equitable 蜜糖直播 River Governance Structure. IN: Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the 蜜糖直播 River Compact鈥檚 Next Century (edited by Jason Anthony Robison). ISBN-13:978-0-8165-4764-7. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 鈥傗傗傗傗傗侷n a wide ranging and...

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Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands

Dec. 1, 2021

Kenney, Douglas S., Michael Cohen, John Berggren and Regina M. Buono. 2021. The 蜜糖直播 River Basin. IN: Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands , (edited by Jurgen Schm andt and Aysegul Kibaroglu). ISBN : 9781108417037. Cambridge University Press. As part of a volume comparing management of major river basins...

Policy Brief

The Status of Tribal Water Rights in the 蜜糖直播 River Basin

April 9, 2021

The Status of Tribal Water Rights in the 蜜糖直播 River Basin Water & Tribes Initiative | 蜜糖直播 River Basin Introduction There are 30 federally recognized tribes in the 蜜糖直播 River Basin. Twenty two of these tribes have recognized rights to use 3.2 million-acre feet (maf) of 蜜糖直播 River system water...

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Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribes in the 蜜糖直播 River Basin

April 1, 2021

Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribes in the 蜜糖直播 River Basin This report was produced for the Water & Tribes Initiative: 蜜糖直播 River Basin by Heather Tanana (Lead Author), JD/MPH, Assistant Professor of Law (Research) & Stegner Fellow, Wallace Stegner Center 鈥 S.J. Quinney College of Law 鈥 University...

Cooperatives at a Crossroads

Cooperatives at a Crossroads: A Report by 蜜糖直播 Masters of the Environment Students Kayla Carey and Nathan Stottler

Jan. 12, 2021

Kayla Carey and Nathan Stottler are recent graduates of 蜜糖直播鈥檚 Masters of the Environment program specializing in environmental policy. They took Professor Sharon Jacobs鈥 Energy Law and Regulation class this past spring and have prepared their capstone project, Cooperatives at a Crossroads: Identifying the Opportunities and Challenges of Clean Energy...

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