[EDITORIAL] Backers of the proposed Palisade whitewater park have some extra time to encourage the Mesa County Commission and others to provide the project with much-needed funding. The Colorado River Basin Roundtable, however, rejected a funding request on the rationale that the park would not generate any wet water. Yet, the whitewater park has the potential to strengthen the case for preventing flows from being diverted out of the Grand Valley and even strengthening the rights of senior water right holders.

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