Colorado Water
Here's a short article about using the Colorado River Compact as a model for allocating Colorado's water in the eight basins, from the Rocky Mountain News [September 22, 2004, "Water plan may draw on history"]. From the article, "As Colorado water utilities wrestle with a lingering drought and how to quench the thirst of an estimated additional 2.2 million people by 2030, the pressure to develop new water sources is growing...The Statewide Water Supply Initiative, as the study is known, shows that state water demand, particularly along the Front Range, will soar by about 60 percent by 2030. Front Range water utilities have long resisted state efforts to interfere in water-development issues. But Aurora and Denver officials said using intrastate compacts among basins might have merit."
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