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Management and Research Organizations
Multiple federal, state, municipal water providers and and research organizations are inolved in Colorado River water management, allocation, assessment, policy, or planning. Primary managment and research organizations involved with the Colorado River are listed below. Please visit the other Colorado Resources pages for additional basin information.
Federal, State, and Muncipal Water Managment
U.S. Department of the Interior
Interior has authority over all of the Federal water projects, including Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams, as well as adminstration ofthe Colorado River Compact.
U.S.Bureau of Reclamation (part of Dept. of Interior)
U.S.B.R. is the managent agency within the Department of Interior that operates all of the Federal water projects in the West, with duties including water supply and hydropower generation.
Upper Colorado Region
Lower Colorado Region
USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
With research assistance from WWA team affiliates Pulwarty , Eischeid, and Jain, the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) is the organization spearheading the Glen Canyon Adaptive Managment Program (AMP), established in 1996.The GMRC is responsible for measuring the effects of Glen Canyon Dam operations on the regional natural processes and species along the Colorado River from Glen Canyon Dam to Lake Mead.
U.S. and Mexico
International Boundary and Water Commission
Arizona
Central Arizona Project (CAP)
Salt River Project (SRP)
California
Coachella Valley Water District
Colorado River Board of California
Imperial Irrigation District
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
The Imperial Group
Colorado
Colorado River Water Conservation District
Colorado River Water Users Association
Denver Water
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
Nevada
Southern Nevada Water Authority
New Mexico
San Juan Chama Project
Utah
Central Utah Water Conservancy District
Wyoming
Green River Basin Water Plan
Other Management and Research Organizations
Colorado River Delta Research Coordination Network
This network of natural scientists, social scientists and legal scholars seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and international research on the Colorado River delta of the U.S. and Mexico. WWA team member, Douglas Kenney, NRLC, is affiliated with this organization as well.
Laboratory of Tree Ring Research at the University of Arizona.
Centro de Estudios de Almejas Muertas (C.E.A.M.) [English translation: Center for the Study of Dead Clams] at the University of Arizona
An informal organization dedicated to the study of taphonomy. Taphonomy is the study of dead things and how they get incorporated into the fossil record. Delta Project
NOAA's Colorado Basin River Forecast Center
This site has projections about future flows in the Colorado River Basin based on snowpack, soil moisture and weather forecasts.
Natural Resource Conservation Service's Colorado office
The NRCS collects snowpack and soil moisture information and then uses that to predict streamflows.
Californa Applications Program (CAP) and the California Climate Change Center (CCCC)
Climate information for California's decision makers.
Climate Assessment of the Southwest (CLIMAS)
Assesses the impacts of climate variability and longer-term climate change on human and natural systems in the Southwest.
Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA)
Identifies critical stakeholder-relevant knowledge gaps and conducts basin-focused multidisciplinary research to fill them and also conveys what is known and what is being learned to improve water management and policy.