Colorado Water
The State budget crisis is creating problems for Colorado's water protection programs, according to the Denver Post [October 15, 2004, "State water protection at risk"]. From the article, "Under a flagging state economy, the legislature last year stripped more than $2 million a year from the health department's Water Quality Control Division. That cut was needed to meet requirements of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR. Consequently, the water quality agency was forced to rely on federal grants. The agency also sharply increased fees on polluters and levied new fees on drinking water providers. But the agency faces a June 2005 sunset of the bill that allowed it to assess those fees."
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