Denver7 (KMGH-TV) produced a segment on the Colorado mountains’ snowpack and runoff predictions with spring in full bloom. The news station interviewed Taft, fka Sherman & Howard, water law attorney and renowned water authority James Eklund, who spoke on the decreased amount of snowpack this year and how this impacts the state’s rivers.

“The problem is becoming tougher to deal with and more acute, and it’s just necessary for us to really start to scrutinize our uses and our operations and policy, because they’re not working,” Eklund explained. “If the hole gets deeper every time we’re below average on stream flow, then we are really not going to solve this problem, and we’re going to be in a situation where we have to potentially curtail water… That’s a very draconian thing to do. It’s a very disruptive and impactful thing to do. And it constitutes, it really represents failure at the policy level, if it comes to that.”

Watch the full interview HERE.

Eklund leads Taft’s Water and Natural Resources practice area. He is a strong advocate for smart water infrastructure and a recognized authority on water management in the American West. Eklund works with sovereign governments, multi-state authorities, state agencies, and private interests to deliver critical water infrastructure projects and to design policy regarding water law, natural resources, infrastructure, and environmental protection.