The Water Information Program

Fuel is used to pursue, although still in the ground, water sources. That fuel continues to skyrocket in price. Wednesday, yet another record price was recorded on crude oil. What water there is gets fought over in the courts with at least two neighboring states. On a smaller scale, the fight is between agriculture producers and the growing population centers, with recreation and wildlife interests thrown in to the mix, as well. Kent Swedlund, a member of the South Platte Basin Roundtable, spoke to the Sterling Rotary Club Wednesday. He said the roundtable meetings are designed to bring everybody together, develop collaboration and discussion. “The idea of the round tables is to help everybody, not just people of a particular region,” Swedlund said. He said one of the reasons the process isn’t moving very quickly is most of the groups are responding territorially. He said that discussion groups from the Western Slope and groups of the northeastern plains have resolved few issues, even though one school of thought would have them part of the same equation. He noted the example that Western Slope cattle are sometimes fed with corn from the eastern plains.

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