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Colorado State University Helping Preserve Four States' Nearly 70-Year History 

To help ensure the long and rich history of the Four States Irrigation Council is well-preserved, the organization’s various documents and materials were recently handed over to the care of Patty Rettig, who oversees the Water Resources Archive at Colorado State University. The Four States archives had previously been kept at Northern Water's headquarters in Berthoud, Colo., but will now be preserved in a way that makes them more accessible to the broader public.
 
"Water is everything to Colorado, and our goal is to preserve its history as much as possible, whether it's the policies, people, technology or events that make up that history," Rettig said of the Water Resources Archive. "We also realize, though, that Colorado's water and its history don't stop at our state's borders. With the Four States Irrigation Council, we have a nearly 70-year history of irrigators from Colorado and our neighboring states getting together to share ideas and learn from one another. That collaboration is a part of our water history that's certainly worth preserving." 
 
Rettig said that organizing and inventorying the many boxes of Four States annual meeting notes, summer tour materials, photos and other items was slowed down this past year by the pandemic, but she hopes to be caught up on the project in 2022. As these materials are inventoried, they'll be made available to the public at CSU's Morgan Library, with some materials also being digitized and posted online.

Learn more about CSU's Water Resources Archive.  

Headlines from the Water World and Four States Region 
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  • Farm Groups Pushing for $49 Billion in Funding to Fix Aging Canals, Reservoirs -- Farm Progress
  • Water Scarcity Will Require Agriculture to Tap ‘Unconventional’ Sources Like Seawater, Wastewater -- Colorado State University
  • Can Cloud Seeding Help the West’s Drought? -- High Country News
  • Reclamation Awards $42.4 Million to Projects in Western U.S. to Use Water More Efficiently -- Water World
  • Geological Survey to Study Interaction of Agriculture, Playas in Western Kansas -- Kansas Geological Survey
  • Farmers Trying to Save Ogallala Aquifer Harvest Financial Success Using Less Water -- Wichita (Kan.) Eagle
  • Study Begins on Options for Canal That Serves 100,000 Acres for Producers in Wyoming, Nebraska -- Scottsbluff (Neb.) Star-Herald
  • Wyoming's Big Sandy Dam and Reservoir Receive $14.5 Million Grant -- Wyoming News Now
  • Grant Advances Stalled Plans for 280-Foot-High Dam Near Rawlins -- WyoFile
  • Northern Water, Environmental Groups Settle Legal Battle Over Chimney Hollow Reservoir -- Greeley, Colo. Tribune
  • New Wyoming Drought Resources Website Launched -- WyoToday Media 
  • Nebraska Farmers, Ranchers Voice Concerns with President Biden's 30x30 Executive Order -- CBS Channel 3 News in Omaha 

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