Patty Rettig is the archivist for CSU's Water Resources Archive. Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Colorado River Compact, she talked about why understanding history can help the present and future.
The Water Resources Archive is launching a pilot project to transcribe diaries written by Delph Carpenter, an influential Colorado water lawyer in the early 1900s.
Community building and compromise work better than confrontation in managing a scarce resource.
The Water Resources Archive, located in Morgan Library, invites people to a new exhibit, 'Reacting to Disaster: Voices of the 1976 Big Thompson Flood,' through Sept. 30.
A set of oral histories about the floods of September 2013 have been made available online through a collaboration between the Water Resources Archive and Colorado State University's Public Lands History Center.