Water Talks: A Colorado Water Podcast

On season 2 episode 3 of Water Talks host Terry Scanga talks with Amy Ostdiek. Amy is the Chief of the Interstate, Federal, and Water Information Section at the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Much of her work focuses on Colorado River matters, including supporting Commissioner Becky Mitchell in her role are Colorado's principal negotiator on interstate Colorado River matters. She oversees...

On season 2 episode 2 of Water Talks host Terry Scanga talks with Senior Water Resource Facilities Manager Jord Gertson. Jord got his Associate's Degree in Science at Colorado Mountain College. He later transferred to CSU in the 90's and changed his degree from physics to watershed science and got his degree in 1999. Water Talks features conversations with experts in Colorado including wat...

Season 2 Opener of Water Talks! In this episode Terry Scanga hosts Water Talks as he visits with Kathleen Curry, former Colorado State Representative. She is currently on the Board of Directors with the Colorado River District. She obtained a graduate degree in Water Resources Planning and Management from Colorado State University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts in...

In this episode of Water Talks, we continue our conversation about watershed management with Mark Shea and Jonathan Paklaian.

In this episode of Water Talks, we speak with Mark Shea and Jonathan Paklaian about the importance of watershed management. Mark is the Watershed Planning Supervisor for Colorado Springs Utilities and the Chair of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable. Jonathan is the Executive Director of the Arkansas River Watershed Collaborative, a nonprofit organization formed by the Ark Basin Roundtable to address wa...

We continue the conversation with Terry Scanga and Greg Felt about Colorado water rights that we started in the first episode and dig a little deeper into appropriation and property rights.

In this first episode of Water Talks, Greg Felt and Terry Scanga of the Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District join us to talk about water appropriation in Colorado and how history shaped the Colorado Doctrine, also known as the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation.