Word: colorado
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...works. That plan, however, is widely dismissed as unaffordable and unnecessary: one study calculates that it could deliver water only at a cost of over $500 an acre- foot, twice the present price for Southern California's coastal cities. "The days of the big water projects are over," says Colorado Water Lawyer John Musick. "What we're going to see is more competition for the water we already have...
...Aquifer, an underground lake that stretches from South Dakota to Texas, is being overdrawn by wells at a rate of 5 ft. a year in places, driving entire counties out of irrigated agriculture. Meanwhile, farms and cities from Salt Lake City to San Diego are literally drinking dry the Colorado River, which now peters out, exhausted and polluted, in the Mexican desert, miles short...
Like natural gas a decade ago, water is in short supply only because of outmoded laws and customs that prevent its sale to willing buyers in most states. The doctrine of prior appropriation has in practice meant "use it or lose it." Thus Utah, for example, diverts Colorado River water for which it has little present use. Other obstacles to water marketing are bureaucratic: muscular interests like Southern California's metropolitan water district and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation tend to view water marketing as a threat to their present service monopolies...
...subscribed to The Crimson from her home in Colorado mainly to keep abreast of the track team's exploits. Her complaint was that many of the team members--including 1988 U.S. Olympic marathon alternate Paul Gompers--deserved far more than the six to eight column inches they received on this page once or twice a week...
...later, I got a postcard from you-know-who thanking me profusely for taking the time to respond to her letter. She wrote that now that her older children had grown up and moved away, there was a spare room in the house. "Anytime you happen to be in Colorado and need a place to stay...