CCA hosts webinar on new ag water leasing decision support tool

    Colorado Cattlemen’s Association’s Ag Water Network has created an online tool that helps agricultural water right holders assess the potential of leasing their water rights for other uses.
    The supporting webinar describes the features of the lease screening tool, which generates a description of a water right’s lease potential based on user-inputted information about the water right, including location, seniority, acres irrigated and other criteria. Both the webinar and the lease decision support tool are available at https://www.agwaternetwork.org/.
    The state water plan, released in 2015, calls for more water storage, conservation and alternative transfer mechanisms (i.e., ag water leasing) to help minimize “buying and drying” of irrigated farm land in Colorado.
 

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