This is a preview edition of Western Water Rights Intelligence — a weekly regulatory briefing for water law practitioners in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and California.

This edition covers:

— The Shoshone Power Plant water court case, now with 63 parties in Colorado Division 5 Water Court

— Bureau of Reclamation's post-2026 Colorado River Draft EIS, released January 9, 2026 with no preferred alternative and an October 1 deadline

— South Platte Basin buy-and-dry litigation and Nebraska v. Colorado interstate compact proceedings

— Colorado's decennial abandonment process timeline updated under HB25-1014

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