Save the Date! “Threats to our Water” Premieres May 20

Save the date for the premiere of “Threats to our Water” on Tuesday evening, May 20. The location for the film viewing and networking is the Pagosa Lodge. Details will be announced here and in the Pagosa SUN.

“Threats to our Water” is the third film in the SJWCD series – “This Is Your Watershed: Upper San Juan River.” The first two videos premiered in 2024 to significant local acclaim and community support. Both “The Value of Snow” and “The Waterways that Connect Us” can be viewed on the SJWCD website’s homepage.

In 2024, San Juan Water Conservancy District received funding from Colorado Water Conservation Board, through Southwest Basin Roundtable, to produce three short videos. The purpose of the videos was to educate the general public about our watershed and the video series was titled “This Is Your Watershed: Upper San Juan River.” Professional film-maker, Christi Bode of Moxiecran Media, produced all three films. Christi is currently writing, interviewing, and filming for the third film, “Threats to our Water.”

At the November 2024 premiere of SJWCD’s first two films, the following water groups demonstrated their support of SJWCD and shared their knowledge of all water uses in our upper San Juan River basin.

– Five Rivers Trout Unlimited

– Pagosa Weather

 – San Juan Headwaters Forest Health Partnership

 – San Juan Water Enhancement Partnership

 – Creation Care

 – Town of Pagosa Springs, Pagosa Gateway and Yamaguchi Park

 – Mountain Studies Institute

 – Friends of the Upper San Juan River and Pagosa Paddle

 – Colorado Division of Water

 – Colorado State University Extension and Natural Resources

 – Community Development Corporation

– Water Information Program

SJWCD works to protect San Juan River health and all local water uses – agricultural, environmental, recreational, industrial, and municipal. More information can be found at www.sjwcd.org.