Colorado Water April 2006

• Year: 2006
• Title: Colorado Water
• Author: Water Center of Colorado State University
• Description: April 2006 Issue
• Publications - Doc Type: Newsletter

(From top)
Michael
Ryan ex-
plains his
perspec-
tive.
John Keys
provides
the finish-
ing touch
to his
point of view.
Dan Tyler pos-
its a discus-
sion item.
Benet Raley
visits with
Kenneth
Wright and
Ruth Wright
at the end of
the evening.
After perusing the materials of the water experts of the past,
guests were escorted across the plaza to the Lory Student
Center for a sumptuous meal and dynamic conversations led
by today's experts in the water field. "We had some of the
best minds in the subject of Western Water all sitting in one
room. It was one of those heady evenings where you got to
rub elbows and converse with some really good people that
have made significant contributions to their community,"
said Mike Applegate of Applegate Group, Inc. one of the
event's sponsors and a member of the event planning com-
mittee.
Conversations ranged from discussions on the role of climate on
Colorado and Western Water Institutions to little known trivia
regarding the transformation of Colorado from the Great Ameri-
can Desert. (A complete list of hosts and their topics are listed on
page 22).
Dave Stewart of Stewart Environmental Consultants, Inc., a
sponsor and planning committee member, was the creative force
behind the event aimed at raising funds to support the growth of
the Water Resources Archive. Inspired by Tables of Content, the
Libraries' annual benefit banquet for a variety of its collections
and services, Stewart wanted to help the Libraries host an event
that could help make the CSU Water Resource Archive the best
in the Western US. "As a member of the engineering community,
the water community in Colorado and as an alum of Colorado
State," said Stewart, "I feel that it is important to have this type
of resource to be able to provide water for our future genera-
tions... We need to keep this history intact, grow the Archives
with additional history and let people know of its existence. This
will only enhance our ability to work with water issues, such as
our drought that we have today."
Water Tables would not have been possible without the gen-
erous help of the Water Tables Planning Committee and our
dedicated sponsors. Those sponsors include Applegate Group,
Inc., Harrison Resource Corporation, Northern Colorado Water
Conservancy District, Stewart Environmental Consultants, Inc.,
Aqua Engineering, Inc., Ayres Associates, Boyle Engineering
Corporation, CDM, Leonard Rice Engineers, Inc., New Fron-
tier Bank, Black and Veatch, the Hilton Fort Collins and Hydro
Construction Company, Inc.