The Colorado Sun quoted Sherman & Howard water law attorney and rancher James Eklund, who is also a former Colorado water official, in an article on the Upper Colorado River Basin conversation efforts. In the article, Eklund provides insights into the Upper Colorado River Commission’s Demand Management Program and its impact on the Upper Basin states.

Below is an excerpt from the article.

“It’s been frustrating to know the demand management account exists in Lake Powell and to see water being conserved through the system conservation pilot program, or SCPP, that just flows through the reservoir,” said James Eklund, a former Colorado water official who helped forge the program and owns a ranch in the pilot program.

“All it needed was to be tagged as DM (demand management) water instead of SCPP water — and it would be water we’d have in our account as Upper Basin states. And we’d be able to point to that water in negotiations,” Eklund said.

Read the article HERE.