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Colorado Governor Bill Ritter acknowledged during his visit to Lamar and  southeast Colorado that there are no easy answers when it comes to water issues in the Arkansas River Valley. When asked to comment on water issues in the Lower Arkansas River Valley and specifically proposed changes for District 2 irrigators that would require efficiency studies to be completed by individual irrigators, the governor said we as a state need to work together to become more efficient and work together to utilize water more effectively. “I think all of us, agricultural users as well as municipal users and industrial users have to understand its a scarce commodity and that we all have to focus on conservation and efficiency in order for us to move in the right direction as a state,” said Ritter. “We talk about conservation and reuse, we talk about shared use with municipal users and agricultural users sharing the use of water off the land and we talk about how we build additional storage. But on the efficiency part of it, it’s important that everybody is thinking about it and focusing about it.”

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