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Colorado River’s dire state demands action from urban water users, experts say — few are

DENVER | Dissonance exists between life-close-to-normal policies regarding urban water use and the growing crisis on the river Casually surveying the urban landscapes in much of Colorado’s Front Range, you’d never know that the Colorado River — the source for roughly half the water of the cities — has deteriorated to its most pitiful shape […]

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LETTER: Reality reveals that Aurora Water not the bad guy as Rep. Carter insists

Editor: In a May 7 Aurora Sentinel opinion column, Aurora House District 36 Rep. Michael Carter took the City of Aurora to task for buying water rights from farmers. Rep. Carter aptly noted increased labor costs, and that small farmers are “under enormous pressure from historic low commodity prices, rising input cost from tariffs,” but […]