Region: Colorado River - Resources

The Water Utility Authority is in charge of all public water and wastewater utilities. It seeks to provide reliable, safe, affordable, and sustainable water supply by transitioning to renewable supplies and minimizing long-term environmental impacts. The Authority also is concerned with reliable, safe, and affordable wastewater collection, treatment, and reuse systems to protect the watershed and maintain high water quality standards.

David Price, Planning, and Engineering Division Manager
Phone: +1-(505) 768-2500

The District is in charge of aquiring and allocating water from the Animas and La Plata rivers and tributaries, as well as other sources of water supplies. Diverstion, storage, transport, and conservation of water resources is included in the District's responsibilities.

Phone: +1-(970) 247-2659

The Department of Water Resources promotes, protects, and manages Arizona's water resources, including water allocations from the Colorado River.

Ruth Greenhouse, Conservation Coordinator
email: rgreenhouse@azwater.gov
Phone: +1-(602) 771-8608

The Arizona-Mexico Commission (AMC)/Comisión Sonora-Arizona (CSA) Water Committee was created to address critical water resources issues in the Arizona-Sonora region.
The AMC/CSA Water Committee was authorized by the Arizona-Mexico Commission (AMC) and it’s Mexican counterpart, the Comisión Sonora-Arizona (CSA), in April of 2007 in response to a joint request made by the Directors of the water resources agencies in the two states.

Sandra Fabritz-Whitney, Director
email: safabritz@azwater.gov
Phone: (602) 771-8426

Roberto Molina
Director of Development and International Strengthening
email: Roberto.Molina@ceasonora.gob.mx
Phone: +52-(662)-289-5700 (ext. 105)

The Association is a voluntary, non-profit corporation established for the development of urban water resources policy. It serves as a forum through which member cities and towns work toward intergovernmental cooperation to advance rational and effective development and use of water resources in Arizona.

Carol Ward-Morris, Water Conservation Porgram Coordinator
email: cwardmorris@amwua.org

The Arizona Water Banking Authority (AWBA) was established in 1996 to increase utilization of the state's Colorado River entitlement and develop long-term storage credits for the state. 

Virginia O’Connell, Manager
email: voconnell@azwater.gov
Phone: +1-(602) 771-8491

ACWA is a statewide coalition of public water agencies in the United States. Its nearly 450 public agency members collectively are responsible for 90% of the water delivered to cities, farms and businesses in California.

Tim Quinn, Executive Director
Phone: +1-(916)-441-4545

Aurora Water provides drinking water, stormdrain and sewer service to over 325,000 residents of Aurora, Colorado.

Greg Baker, Media Contact
Phone: +1-(303)-739-7081
email: gbaker@auroragov.org

The State Water Commission of the State of Baja California develops and coordinates systems related to water delivery to the state's communities. It also plans, regulates and coordinates systems of water distribution and wastewater management (including collection, treatment and reuse).

Efraín Muñoz Martin
General Director - Mexicali
email: emunoz@gtel.com.mx
Phone: +52-(686)-555-4723

The Bard Water District is located within the Quechan Indian Reservation, an area with much farmland. Water is diverted from the All-American Canal, which is diverted from the Colorado at Imperial Dam. The District is charged with operating and maintaining the canals and canal gates.

Ron Derma, General Manager
email: bardwater@aol.com
Phone: +1-(760)-572-0704

George J. Cairo, P.E.
email: gcairo@gcairoinc.com
Phone: +1-(480)-921-4080

The California Department of Water Resources is responsible for the management of California's water resources in cooperation with other agencies.

Public Affairs Office
Phone: +1-(916) 653-6192

The CPUC regulates privately owned electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies. The CPUC serves the public interest by protecting consumers and ensuring the provision of safe, reliable utility service and infrastructure at reasonable rates, with a commitment to environmental enhancement and a healthy California economy.

Gary Weatherford, Presiding Officer
email: gw2@cpuc.ca.gov

The Central Arizon Water Conservation District manages the Central Arizona Project, which has more than 80 customers from three groups: municipal and industrial, agricultural, and Indian users. The municipal and industrial customers include cities and water utilities which are responsible for treating drinking water and delivering it directly to residential homes, commercial buildings, and industries.CAP also delivers water to Indian communities but, by law, is not permitted to contract directly with them. Tribal nations contract for CAP water with the federal government.

David V. Modeer, General Manager
email: dmodeer@cap-az.com
Phone: +1-(623)-869-2378

Central Utah Water Conservancy District delivers clean and useable water to its customers by managing the vast network of water facilities in Central Utah.

Mitch Bishop
email: mitch.bishop@snwa.com
Phone: +1-(702)-822-8317

A wholesale water supplier that develops, maintains and provides water water services to customers in City of Casper, Wyoming; Natrona County
Poison Spider Improvement & Service District; Sandy Lake Estates; 33 Mile Service and Improvement District; Lakeview Service and Improvement District; Pioneer Water and Sewer District; Salt Creek Joint Powers Board and Wardwell Water and Sewer District

Phone: +1-(307)265-6063
email: jbrown@cityofcasperwy.com

The Water Services Department is responsible for Phoenix's water and wastewater programs. The water program provides a safe and adequate domestic water supply to all residents in the water service area. The wastewater program assists in providing a clean, healthy environment through the effective management and treatment of wastewater.

Ken Kroski
Phone: +1-(602)-534-1209
email: ken.kroski@phoenix.gov

The district treats, disinfect and reclaims around 95 million gallons per day of wastewater from the Clark county

Phone: +1-702-668-8888

CVWD is a public water agency that delivers irrigation and domestic (drinking) water, collects and recycles wastewater, provides regional storm water protection, replenishes the groundwater basin and promotes water conservation. CVWD's service area covers approximately 1,000 square miles from the San Gorgonio Pass to the Salton Sea, mostly within the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California. The boundaries also extend into small portions of Imperial and San Diego counties in California.

Phone: +1-(760)-398-2651
Email: customerservice@cvwd.org

The Water Quality Control Division is recognized as Colorado’s leading agency for monitoring and reporting on the quality of state waters, preventing water pollution, protecting, restoring and enhancing the quality of surface and groundwater, and assuring that safe drinking water is provided from all public water systems. The Division is also committed to continuously enhancing and improving service to all segments of the public.

Steve Gunderson, Division Director
email: steve.gunderson@state.co.us
Phone: +1-(303)-692-3509

The Colorado Division of Water Resources (DWR), also known as the Office of the State Engineer, administers water rights, issues water well permits, represents Colorado in interstate water compact proceedings, monitors streamflow and water use, approves construction and repair of dams and performs dam safety inspections, issues licenses for well drillers and assures the safe and proper construction of water wells, and maintains numerous databases of Colorado water information.

Dick Wolfe, State Engineer
Phone: +1-(303) 866-3581

The Regional Water Board makes critical water quality decisions for its region, including setting standards, issuing waste discharge requirements, determining compliance with those requirements, and taking appropriate enforcement actions. The region covered by the Water Quality Control Board covers approximately 13,000,000 acres (20,000 square miles) in the southeastern portion of California. It includes all of Imperial County and portions of San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego Counties.

Robert Perdue, Executive Officer
email: rperdue@waterboards.ca.gov
Phone: +1-(760)-346-7491

The Colorado River Board of California was established to protect California's rights and interests in the resources provided by the Colorado River and to represent California in discussions and negotiations regarding the Colorado River and its management.

Christopher S. Harris, Acting Executive Director
Phone: (818) 500-1625

The Colorado River Commission of Nevada serves the communities of the state of Nevada by responsibly managing and protecting Colorado River water and power resources.

McClain Peterson, Director
Phone: +1-(702)-486-2672

The Colorado River District is the principal water policy and planning agency for the Colorado River Basin within the State of Colorado. The River District is responsible for the conservation, use, protection, and development of Colorado's apportionment of the Colorado River. The River District provides legal, technical, and political representation regarding Colorado River issues.

Jim Pokrandt, Communications and Education
Email: jpokrandt@crwcd.org
Phone: +1-(970)-945-8522 ext. 236 office

CRWUA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization,
formed to plan, study, formulate and advise
on ways to protect and safeguard the
interests of all who use the Colorado River.

Mitch Bishop
email: mitch.bishop@snwa.com
Phone: +1-(702)-822-8317

Colorado Springs Utilities provide electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater services to the Pikes Peak region.

Gary Bostrom, Chief Water Services Officer
email: gbostrom@csu.org

The Authoirty is a major financing resource for water and wastewater utilities throughout Colorado. The Authority is involved with water projects and basin-wide studies, satelite stream monitoring, financing of reservoir projects, and project negotiations.

Phone: +1-(303) 830-1550

Denver Water utility is a public agency that serves more than 1.3 million people in Denver and its surrounding suburbs. The majority of Denver’s water comes from rivers and streams fed by mountain snowmelt. The South Platte River, Blue River, Williams Fork River and Fraser River watersheds are Denver Water’s primary water sources, but it also uses water from the South Boulder Creek, Ralston Creek and Bear Creek watersheds.

Stacy Chesney, Media Inquiries
stacy.chesney@denverwater.org
travis.thompson@denverwater.org
Phone: +1-(303)-628-6700

The Imperial Irrigation District is a public agency whose mission it is to provide reliable, efficient and affordably priced water and energy service to the communities it serves.

http://www.iid.com/index.aspx?page=74

IBWC provides binational solutions to issues that arise during the application of United States - Mexico treaties regarding boundary demarcation, national ownership of waters, sanitation, water quality, and flood control in the border region

Ed Drusina, Commissioner:
Phone: +1-(915)-832-4101
Lisa Holguin, Secretary (OA)
Phone: +1-(915)-832-4765

A not-for-profit agency that began providing water to the Las Vegas Valley in 1954, and now provides water to more than 1 million people in Southern Nevada.

http://www.lvvwd.com/about/contact_us.html

The department is New Mexico's only 4-service, not-for-profit, publically-owned utility providing the community of Los Alamos County with electric, natural gas, water and wastewater services.

Allison Majure, Public Relations Department of Public Utilities
Phone: +1-505-662-8333
email: DPU@lacnm.us

LADWP delivers water to the city of Los Angeles serving 3.9 million residents.

Joe Ramallo, Media Contact
email: joseph.ramallo@ladwp.com
Phone: +1-(213)-367-1361

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a consortium of 26 cities and water districts that provides drinking water to nearly 19 million people in parts of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.

Jeffrey Kightlinger, Executive Officer
email: OfficeoftheGeneralManager2@mwdh2o.com
Phone: +1-(213)-217-6139

The National Park Service administers nine parks, recreation areas and monuments along the Colorado River and its key tributaries (Green, Yampa, and Gunnison Rivers). These parks and monuments comprise over 5 million acres of land and over 1,000 miles of mainstream river corridor, posses a magnificent array of natural and cultural resources, and offer an enormous variety of recreational opportunities.

Check each Park in the Colorado river basin for contact information

NID is a water resource agency that supplies water to nearly 25,000 homes, farms and businesses in Nevada and Placer counties in the foothills of Northern California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Ronald S. “Ron” Nelson, General Manager
Phone: +1-(530)-273-6185 ext. 224

The Department’s mission is to provide the highest quality of life throughout the state by promoting a safe, clean and productive environment.

Phone: +1-(800) 219-6157
Phone: +1-(505) 827-2855

The Interstate Stream Commission has broad powers to investigate, protect, conserve, and develop New Mexico’s waters including both interstate and intrastate stream systems. The Commission’s authority under state law includes negotiating with other states to settle interstate stream controversies.

Estevan Lopez, Director
Phone: +1-(505) 827-6103

Northern Water is a public agency created to contract with the federal government to build the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. The C-BT provides supplemental water to more than 640,000 acres of irrigated farm and ranch land and about 850,000 people in Northeastern Colorado.

Brian Werner, Public Information Officer
Phone: +1-(970)-622-2229
E-mail: bwerner@northernwater.org

Dana Strongin, Communications Specialist
Phone: +1-(970)-622-2239
E-mail: dstrongin@northernwater.org

The District serves the North Gila Valley and is charged with water delivery.

Phone: +1-(928) 343 9447

Palo Verde Irrigation District occupies about 189 square miles of territory in Riverside and Imperial Counties, California. The District contains approximately 131,298 acres, 26,798 acres of which are on the Palo Verde Mesa. The Colorado River, at the boundary between Arizona and California, forms the eastern and southern boundaries of the District.

Phone: +1-(760)-922-3144
E-Mail: pvid@pvid.org

The Department of Public Utilities is dedicated to serving its customers and protecting the environment. It is charged with delivering high-quality drinking water, managing flood control and storm water, and collecting and treating wastewater to standards that exceed EPA regulations. The Department protects source waters and promotes effecient water use.

Stephanie Duer, Water Conservation Coordinator
Phone: +1-(801)-483-6860

The Salton Sea Authority is a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) whose goal is the revitalization of the Salton Sea, which is historically part of the Colorado River Delta, and facing various conservation challenges.

Email: info@saltonsea.ca.gov
Phone: 760-863-2696

San Diego Country Water Authority is a public agency serving the San Diego region as a wholesale supplier of water from the Colorado River and Northern California.

Maureen Stapleton, General Manager
Phone: +1-(858)-522-6600

Sonora State Water Commission is an autonomous entity providnig technical assistance to municipalities and operating water distribution systems in the State of Sonora.

Roberto Molina
Director of Development and International Strengthening
email: Roberto.Molina@ceasonora.gob.mx
Phone: +52-(662)-289-5700 (ext. 105)

Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District provides services to portions of Bent, Chaffee, Crowley, El Paso, Fremont, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers and Pueblo Counties and manages the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, which imports spring snowmelt runoff from Colorado's west slope to the semi-arid Arkansas River Basin on Colorado's east slope.

Phone: +1-(719)-948-2400

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is a cooperative agency formed in 1991 to address Southern Nevada's unique water needs on a regional basis. SNWA officials are charged with managing the region's water resources and providing for Las Vegas Valley residents' and businesses' present and future water needs.

J.C. Davis
email: JC.Davis@lvvwd.com
Phone: +1-(702) 258-7117

The Bureau of Water Pollution Control (BWPC) protects the waters of the State from the discharge of pollutants by issuing discharge permits; these permits define the quality of the discharge necessary to protect the quality of the waters of the State.

Phone: +1-(775) 687-9418

The mission of the Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR) is to conserve, protect, manage and enhance the State's water resources for Nevada's citizens through the appropriation and reallocation of the public waters.

Phone: +1-(775) 684-2800

The Grand Valley Irrigation Company is a non-profit, privately owned, mutual irrigation company that services water stock and operates canal right-of-way within sections of the service area.

email: gvic@irrigationprovidersgv.org
Phone: +1-(970)-242-2762

The Association is charged with water management and supply and Involved in a project to manage salinity in the Colorado River.

Phone: +1-(970)-249-3813

The Unit B Irrigation District is charged with water supply and delivery.

Phone: +1-(928)-627-8891

The District services an area South of the Colorado River, including areas with high agricultural production

Phone: +1-(928)-726 1047

The Yuma Mesa IDD is in charge of water management and irrigation.

Phone: +1-(928)-726 4353

The Bureau of Reclamation's Lower Colorado Region serves as the "water master" for the last 688 miles of the Colorado River within the United States on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior. The Bureau also maintains Hoover, Davis and Parker Dams, annually measures and accounts for the water's use, and maintain the river channel and protective levees.

Phone: +1-702-293-8000

The Bureau of Reclamation's Lower Colorado Region serves as the "water master" for the Upper Colorado River within the United States on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior.

Larry Walkoviak, Regional Director
Phone; +1-801-524-3600

The U.S. EPA Region 8 offices serves Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and 27 Tribal Nations. Water-related projects include improving water quality and decreasing pollution in watersheds, Superfund site clean-up, and protecting and ensuring safe surface and groundwater.

James B. Martin, Regional Administrator and Regional Deputy Administrator, Colorado Office:
r8eisc@epa.gov
Phoone: +1-(303) 312-6312
San Francisco Office: +1-(415) 947-8000

The Recovery Program is a unique partnership of local, state, and federal agencies, water and power interests, and environmental groups working to recover endangered fish in the Upper Colorado River Basin while water development proceeds in accordance with federal and state laws and interstate compacts.

Debbie Felker, Program's Information and Education Coordinator
Phone: +1-(303)-969-7322, ext. 227
e-mail: debbie_felker@fws.gov

DEQ implements State and federal environmental laws and works with individuals, community groups, and businesses to protect the quality of air, land and water.

Walt Baker, Director
email: wbaker@utah.gov
Phone: 801-536-4312

The Division of Water Resources is one of seven agencies of the Utah Department of Natural Resources and is the water resources authority for the state of Utah. The Board is the policy-making body of the division.

Phone: +1-801-538-7230

The Utah Water Users Association represents water user entities in the State of Utah including irrigators, municipal users, industry, federal, state, county and local agencies and private entities.

Carly B. Burton, Executive Director
Phone: +1-(801)-268-3065
email: utahwaterusers@aol.com

WIFA is an independent agency of the state of Arizona and is authorized to finance the construction, rehabilitation and/or improvement of drinking water, wastewater, wastewater reclamation, and other water quality facilities/projects. Generally, WIFA offers borrowers below market interest on loans for 100% of eligible project costs.

Henry R. Darwin, Chairman
email: darwin.henry@azdeq.gov
Phone: +1-(602) 771-2309

The Wellton-Mohawk IDD is involved in irrigation, drainage (including managing salt concentrations), and power generation. Particular identified challenges include management of the quality and flow of the Colorado River.

Phone: +1-(928)-785-3351

Western Area Power Administration markets and delivers hydroelectric power and related services within a 15-state region of the central and western U.S. WAPA is one of four power marketing administrations within the U.S. Department of Energy whose role is to market and transmit electricity from multi-use water projects. Its transmission system carries electricity from 56 power plants operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the International Boundary and Water Commission, and one coal-fied plant.

Management Center
Phone: 801-524-5493

The Western Governors' Association brings together Governors from Kansas to California to identify and address key policy and governance issues relating to natural resources, the environment, human services, economic development, international relations, transportation, and public management. The Association has particular emphasis on clean and reliable water supplies, which includes water transfers, water infrastructure, and improved drought preparedness.

Tom Iseman, Program Director
Water and Climate Adaptation
email: tiseman@westgov.org
Phone: +1-(720) 897 4536

The council aims to (1) to accomplish effective cooperation among western states in the conservation, development and management of water resources; (2) to maintain vital state prerogatives, while identifying ways to accommodate legitimate federal interests; (3) to provide a forum for the exchange of views, perspectives, and experiences among member states; and (4) to provide analysis of federal and state developments in order to assist member states in evaluating impacts of federal laws and programs and the effectiveness of state laws and policies.

Tony Willardson, Executive Director
email: twillardson@wswc.utah.gov
Phone: +1-(801) 685-2555

The Western Urban Water Coalition brings together many western U.S. municipal water suppliers to address water issues. The Coalition aims to advocate on water policy issues, promote increased sensitivity to environmental water needs, encourage water conservation, and allow the sensible transfer of water.

David Modeer, Chairman
email: dmodeer@cap-az.com
Phone: +1-(623)-869-2333

The association represents Wyoming's 34 local conservation districts

Bobbie Frank, Executive Director
Phone: +1-(307) 632-5716
email: waocd@tribcsp.com

The office regulates and administers Wyonming's water resources

Phone: +1-(307)-777-7354

The Wyoming Water Association (WWA) is a non-profit corporation and is the only statewide water resources association consisting of private citizens, elected officials, and representatives of business, government agencies, industry and water user groups and districts.

Email: radona@wyomingwater.org
Phone: 307-286-8614

The Wyoming Water Development Program promotes the optimal development of the state's human, industrial, mineral, agricultural, water and recreational resources. The program provides, through a commission, procedures and policies for the planning, selection, financing, construction, acquisition, and operation of projects. This can include projects for the conservation, storage, distribution and use of water, necessary in the public interest to develop and preserve Wyoming's water and related land resources.

Michael K. Purcell, Director
Phone: 307-777-7626

The Yuma County Water Users' Association is a private non-profit corporation under the Yuma Project. The Association oversees some agricultural land and is charged with supplying most of the City of Yuma's water.

Phone: +1-(928)-627-8824