GRAD 592

Fall 2007 theme:

Colorado Water Development in the 21st Century

Monday, 4:00 – 5:30pm
A-206 Clark Building
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

The purpose of the 2007 Interdisciplinary Water Resources Seminar (GRAD 592), through a series of invited speakers, is to examine how new water supplies are being developed in Colorado during the current era and to study an array of projects that are in various stages of development.  These projects include: Animas La Plata, Elkhead Reservoir, Reuter Hess Reservoir, NISP, Barr Lake pipeline, the Prairie Water project and others.   More specifically, the seminar will: 

1. Examine the steps and processes involved in water supply development
2. Understand the legal and environmental aspects of water development
3. Discuss the intra and interstate issues that increase the complexity of water supply planning in the 21st Century
4. Examine current Colorado water projects to understand the issues of public water supply, drought protection, environmental mitigation, transfer of agricultural water, endangered species needs, interstate compacts, water quality protection and other topics

Students interested in taking the one-credit seminar should sign up for GRAD 592, Water Resources Seminar, CRN 61105.  The seminar will be held 4:00pm Monday afternoons in Room A-206 Clark Bldg.  (Students who have enrolled in GRAD 592 in the past, can also enroll for this offering)

All interested faculty, students and off-campus water professionals are encouraged to attend and participate.