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History 225--Colorado History: Finding Articles & Books

Recommended Colorado History Books

Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers by P. Andrew Jones; Tom Cech
Call Number: KFC2246 .J66 2009
ISBN: 9780870819506
Publication Date: 2009-04-30
Water and the West: the Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West by Norris Hundley
Call Number: KF5590 .C57 H86 2009
ISBN: 9780520260115
Publication Date: 2009-05-15
A Land Made from Water: Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions by Robert R. Crifasi
Call Number: TC424 .C6 C75 2015
ISBN: 9781607323679
Publication Date: 2015-11-07
A Ditch in Time: The City, The West, The Water by Patricia Nelson Limerick; Jason Hanson (As told to)
Call Number: TC425 .C6 L56 2012
ISBN: 9781555913663
Publication Date: 2012-07-24
Water Law in a Nutshell by David H. Getches
Call Number: KF5569.85 .G48 2015
ISBN: 9780314211576
Publication Date: 1996-12-01
Citizen's Guide to Colorado Water Law, 5th ed. by Colorado Foundation for Water Education
Call Number: KFC2246 .H62 2021
ISBN: 9780975407585
Publication Date: 2021
The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier by David Schorr
Call Number: KF646 .S36 2012
ISBN: 9780300134476
Publication Date: 2012-11-27

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Colorado Water Law and Water Rights Resources

1922 Colorado Water Compact
1922 Colorado Water Compact from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Synopsis of Colorado Water Law
Colorado Office of the State Engineer, 2011
Citizen's Guide to Colorado Water Law
Colorado Foundation for Water Education, 2004
Colorado Citizens' Water Law Handbook
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, 1991
History of Water Rights in Colorado
Official website from the Colorado Office of the State Engineer
Colorado State Water Policy
Colorado Legislative Council, 2010
Groundwater Law Sourcebook of the United States
University of Colorado School of Law, 2003
Guide to Colorado Well Permits, Water Rights, and Water Administration and Water
Colorado Division of Water Resources, 2012
Water Quality and Water Rights in Colorado
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, 1989
Non-Attorney's Guidebook to Colorado Water Courts
Colorado Supreme Court, 2008
Summary of Laws of Seventeen Western Reclamation States
Colorado Water Conservation Board, 1973
Ground Water Atlas of Colorado
Colorado Geological Survey, 2003
Glossary of Water Terminology
Colorado State University Extension, 2012

Instructional/Reference Librarian

Becky Kramer

Quigley Library

Contact:

bkramer@coloradomtn.edu

970.947.8269

Quality Internet Sites and Databases

Colorado State Publications Library

Pandora Catalog:

https://athena.cde.state.co.us/screens/opacmenu_s1.html

Colorado Revised Statutes:

http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/colorado/Default.asp

Colorado Foundation for Water Education

"Headwaters" Magazine archive:

http://www.yourwatercolorado.org/cfwe-education/headwaters-magazine/archive

The "google" of government documents:

http://www.usa.gov/