Amy Haas
The Colorado River Authority of Utah (CRAU) has hired Amy I. Haas as its first executive director. Haas has 20 years of water industry experience, including multiple positions specific to the Colorado River Basin and most recently as executive director of the Upper Colorado River Commission (UCRC) since 2018. Prior to that role, she worked as the deputy executive director and general counsel for UCRC, served as both general counsel and acting director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, and worked as New Mexico’s Upper Colorado River commissioner and its Colorado River Basin states representative. Haas began her law career in New Mexico as an attorney in private practice, concentrating on water and land use law. CRAU is a recently formed state agency that seeks to protect, preserve, conserve and develop Utah’s Colorado River system interests.
