Linkmania

The Colorado River Water Conservation District has a list of nearly 900 water-issue related links indexed under the following headings. Holy cow.

Aridity - study of dry areas
Arizona
Bureau of Reclamation
California
Climate
Colorado River Compact
Colorado River Delta
Colorado Water
Agencies:
State of
Colorado
Statewide Agencies
Regional Agencies
West Slope
Conservation/ Xeriscape
Drought
Education
El Nino/ La Nina/ ENSO - influencing factor of Colorado's weather
Endangered Species
Federal Agencies
General Water Links
Glossaries/ Water
Term Definitions
Groundwater
Gunnison River Basin Links
Images/ Photo Archives/
Maps
Infrastructure/Dams
International Water
Links
Irrigation/ Agriculture
Klamath River Basin
Issues - conflict involving endangered species, tribal rights, etc. in Oregon
Law
Mainstem of Colorado
River Links
Media
Reporting on Water
Native American Water
Issues
Nevada
New Mexico
Policy
Organizations - Colorado
Policy Organizations
- National
Private Water
Development Companies
Recreation
Salinity - significant water quality issue on Colorado, Arkansas Rivers
Streamflows, Hydrology and
related data
Utah
Water
Quality
Water Resources Agencies
Watershed
Groups
White River Basin Links
Wyoming Yampa
River Basin Links

Wetlands law under the Clean Water Act

"Look Before You Fill," Michael Keller, Utah Bar Journal, Nov. 2004.

Two sources of water news

Here are two good sources of timely water issue related news (although both have a western states emphasis):

Headwaters News and Colorado Water

I'll include both in the links in the sidebar.

Colorado River water conservation plan deadline looms

"Interior Secretary Gale Norton last month told states in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin to prepare a water conservation plan by this spring - or face the prospect of a federal plan being imposed on them...."
- Salt Lake Tribune

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Des Moines Register - Iowa is out of compliance with the Clean Water Act. Iowa Environmental Protection Commission discusses non-compliance, as well as difficulties some communities have complying.

According to this opinion piece in the Wichita Eagle, farmers and developers are purging municipal interests from a district water management board and stacking it with their own.

A retiring 12-year member of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board of Directors provides some thoughts on water politics, policy and pricing in the Arizona Republic.