Colorado state engineer worries that cities are draining agriculture
December 23, 2007
The new
state engineer in Colorado is taking over at a time when
applications for water use have risen by 300% in the last five years. Many of those are competing interests between
municipal users and
agricultural users. Colorado's ability to work out its water-supply issues are extremely important to Nebraska and Kansas, which depend upon runoff from the Rocky Mountains for much of their ongoing water use.
last revised December 2007