Daniel Anderson
- Water Law Fellow
- GETCHES-WILKINSON CENTER
Daniel Anderson is a Water Law Fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at University of Colorado Law School. He received a J.D. from Colorado Law in 2025. Before law school, Daniel served in the US Peace Corps in Morocco and worked as a housing navigator for veterans and people exiting incarceration. During law school, he gained experience with western water law working for Judge Todd Taylor, a Colorado Water Court Judge, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office’s Natural Resource & Environment Section, and on water rights for the City Attorney’s Office of Boulder, Colorado.
Daniel writes about reforms in western water law and policy on subjects such as instream flow rights, American Indian water rights, and abandoned hardrock mine cleanup. He is drawn to the task of researching and advocating for wes ern water law reform due to his conviction that water management is an environmental justice issue as well as his personal connection to clean, flowing water as an angler.
Publications
The Water Report, EPA Pilot Program to Clean the West's Abandoned Hardrock Mines
GWC Blog Posts
The Shoshone Instream Flow Acquisition: Public Process Carves a Path Forward
Could Good Samaritans Fix America’s Abandoned Hardrock Mine Problem?