November 2008 Newsletter

Volume 25 : Issue 6
Snow

If you are like most of us, when you think of water in Colorado, you envision liquid blue water flowing in our streams and reservoirs. However, if you really want to talk about water in Colorado, you’ve got to think snow. Snow is our annually renewable water resource and you might say the Rocky Mountains are our water towers. Hydrologists estimate that about 75% of Colorado’s streamflow is derived from snowmelt, so it is little wonder that we watch the snowpack accumulate and melt off each water year with so much interest...(read more)