Front Range
February 18, 2010--Denver Water extends Moffat EIS comment period (Sky-Hi Daily News)
February 6, 2010--Pace's water transfer bill dies on House floor (Pueblo Chieftain)
January 22, 2010--Brophy bill would set ground water wells in stone (Journal Advocate)
January 17, 2010--High and dry is no place to be (Colorado Springs Gazette)
Sometime this century, the disappearing groundwater along Colorado’s Front Range is going to be a huge story. Water providers who have done their jobs will be able to witness this slow-motion train wreck from afar, safe in the knowledge that their customers have nothing to worry about. Those who are content with pumping water out of the ground ultimately will suffer.
January 15, 2010--Grand County hopes to benefit from Front Range water-firming projects (Sky-Hi Daily News)
December 24, 2009--What the state is studying... (Pueblo Chieftain)
December 21, 2009--As water use falls in Front Range, it explodes elsewhere in Colorado (Denver Post)
Colorado Front Range residents are using less water, but some parts of the Western Slope have seen per capita water use explode in the past decade, according to a new state study. The number of gallons per person used daily in Denver and other South Platte River basin cities decreased 13.6 percent between 2000 and 2008, to 178 gallons from 206 gallons.
September 30, 2009--Ritter: Take time on water transfers (Durango Herald)
The growing Front Range shouldn't be allowed to take more Western Slope water unless it presents a plan that's a "win-win-win" for the entire state, Gov. Bill Ritter said Tuesday.
