Well, I'd drink that beer but I just moved from the area to kansas. Here's the problem: people are moving into the front range at alarming rate, so fast that the powers that be are scrambling to accomodate the influx. Colorado water law does now allow transfers (leases) of water rights without major red tape. Then there's Mr salazar that wants to take, by executive order, water rights that private citizens paid for and allow a small commitee to decide how they are best used in the publics interest. As you might have guessed, I used to work in the irrigation/water business and was very close to water law in colorado, wyoming and california. No, people will not quit watering thier lawns and put them in xeriscape and they are far more worried about legalizing pot and re-electing Barak hussien than any water right issues. Regretfully, you and the fish will loose and I wish it wasnt that way.

Very sad!
When are people going to realize that our fresh water is our most precious resource? They want to suck your rivers dry, and here in PA they want to let them be polluted by this Marcellus gas drilling boom. This industry is already taking it's toll on our waters and it has only just begun.
I gladly signed the petition and hope for the best for your river.

ejpaul1, I completely agree with your comment. Their could be so much more done to improve the states water woes that do NOT include sucking rivers dry. I install Permeable pavers around the country but not in the Denver area. If water falls from the sky there, it belongs to the state and local governments. No rain water harvesting for watering purposes. Colorado used to be a leader in "hippie" building practices as I like to call them but they have fallen of the deep end when it comes to water in that state. Very sad indeed.

I really don't understand the whole Colorado people and water issue. I live in Ohio so I don't, we don't here whats going on out west for the most part. I'm confused isn't Colorado considered a Semi-Arid region? So the state want's to take water from a semi-arid region to pump into another semi-arid region? The whole thing sounds stupid to me. You shouldn't allow development, factory or residential in a arid region without the full disclosure that if you choose to live there you live with what is there already. Anyway the whole pumping river to supply a semi-arid region is just idiotic and common sense tells you this isn't a good thing. So I will sign the petition.

When I was out west last summer I noticed that several houses thought they had to pump water right from the rivers so they could have a nice green lawn. I thought it was extremely wasteful. If you want a nice green lawn, then consider moving out of the desert.

I hope the snowfall comes for you guys this year because I know more and more folks are going to build their second homes or primary residences in the region; that will only bring more needs for clean water. This of course will impact more of the very reasons that folks move to the mountains. I come from a region that has lots of water available and it is some of the most expensive in the east. Guarantee you don't waste water when it is expensive.

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ha, thanks Treelimit. Yum, I think I'll get that tomorrow for breakfast. You lived pretty darn close to me too.

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I lived in Littleton, CO from '01-'03 and we were having water shortages then. The local government was pushing for conservation, not draining the rivers to fill our resevoirs. What happened in the last 10 years?

dirtybill, and most of you slow thnkers don't seem to get it. What happened to conservation? lol! What happens to conservation when those governing the economy trash the economy? DUH! Conservation goes out the backdoor. Just what I told you on a lot of other issues. And water? It is never used up. Just as many atoms of Oxygen, and hydrogen as there ever was...a renewable resource.

Will the beer be from New Belgium, perhaps?? I hope so! But, in any case, I speak about this very issue when I talk about Harris Hawks during environmental education programs in schools. You can bet I will be sending this blog on to my friends and co-workers.
Few things make me more irritable than when I see fresh, green lawns and golf courses in arid or semi-arid regions. It's wasteful and arrogant.

signed, my Aunt lives in Boulder and I've done my fair share of fishing in Colorado. I had to see Denver stomp all over a water way like that.

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