2023 Upper Colorado River Basin Forum

This year’s forum theme, Reshaping the River: Reimagining Water Use & Management in the Upper Colorado River Basin, will have diverse array of speakers from across the Colorado River Basin. Agenda topics include innovative agricultural water management practices, resilient riverscapes, updates from state agencies, unpacking and understanding diminishing water supplies, reauthorization of recovery programs, and networking events. Come to learn more about these topics and meet other members of the water community.

For more information about the conference, click here for the Upper Colorado River Basin Water Forum Website. 


Registration Options:
This ticket includes forum attendance, an evening networking event, and meals both days.

*** Scholarship Information: If you are a water user from the public (i.e., producer, rancher, irrigator, water community participant) or CMU faculty please contact Joel Sholtes ([email protected]) with a description of your involvement with water for a limited number of registrant scholarships.

  • Forum Registration – $250 per person for the public. (Scholarships are available for the water user community, see above)
  • Forum Faculty Registration – $125 for CMU Faculty members. (Scholarships are available for the water user community, see above)
  • Forum Student Registration – $50 for non-CMU students.
  • Forum CMU Student Registration – Free for all CMU students.


Sponsorship Options:

Once you register for a sponsorship, we will follow up about individual registrants and exhibit booths.

  • Basin Level – $3,000 benefits includes up to three registrations, one booth in Exhibit Hall, sponsor log feature in Forum publications, website, and during the conference.
  • Watershed Level – $1,500 benefits includes up to two registrations, one booth in Exhibit Hall, sponsor log feature in Forum publications, website, and during the conference.
  • Headwaters Level – $750 benefits includes up to one registration, sponsor log feature in Forum publications, website, and during the conference.