Here's Part III of the Pueblo Chieftain's series on Colorado Water issues. They write, "The Denver metro area continues to be the 800-pound gorilla tipping the scales of water supply and demand in Colorado.
"More than half the state's population, 2.4 million people, call the six-county metro area home. Growth has been staggering - more than 30 percent in 15 years. And, it's been about that long since communities on the Front Range have been scrambling to provide the most basic of resources to support that growth: water.
"Two Forks Dam, a project spearheaded by the Denver Water Board to meet the burgeoning demand, was vetoed by the EPA in 1990. The veto ended the utility's plans for supplying most outlying communities, and touched off a flurry of activity for water planners.
"It did not, however stop the growth."
Category: Colorado Water
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