Bart Miller
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Bart Miller is Water Program Director at Western Resource Advocates. He manages a team of staff and contractors who protect river flows, recover endangered species, improve the efficient use of water, and make the connection between water use, energy production, and climate change. In a multi-year effort, Bart crafted litigation and settlement negotiations that resulted in a new water right for Black Canyon National Park on the Gunnison River. Prior to joining WRA in 2000, Bart spent 4 years in the Solicitor’s Office in Washington, DC, on the legal staff that advises the many agencies within the U. S. Department of the Interior; there he focused on natural resource issues in the Division of Indian Affairs. Mr. Miller is a graduate of the University of Colorado Law School and Dartmouth College.

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Filling the Front Range Water Gap

Posted March 8, 2011 | 11:35:33 (EST)

In coming decades, Colorado's Front Range will face booming population growth and a "gap" between water supply and water demand. The discussion of options for meeting the gap continues to focus on old ideas including huge trans-mountain pipelines, which are extremely costly and inflict lasting damage on our rivers, streams...

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In the West, Climate and Energy Policy Is Water Policy

Posted July 19, 2010 | 12:36:15 (EST)

As the West continues to struggle with a decade-long drought, declining river flows have left major storage reservoirs--like Powell and Mead--only 55% full. Whether these important storage vessels will ever be full again is in question as scientists are concluding that the extended droughts of the past may become the...

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