Water situation is serious
“Colorado’s water plan updated”: This is a great article by Marianne Goodland and Mary Shinn. If you are unaware of the serious water shortage in Colorado, as well as the other 6 States included in the 7 state Colorado River Compact of 1922, please read their article. Water is not a replaceable commodity. When it is gone, it is gone for good.
The Colorado River provides water, not only for Coloradans, but for California, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. Colorado Springs gets “70% of its community water from the Colorado River basin”, the western slope. Colorado and Wyoming have had to release 100s of thousands of acre feet…
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