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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCities to ag: No extra water to lease this year
from the article:
Agriculture uses about 85 percent of the states water, according to the Colorado Division of Water Resources, but the ag industry doesnt own nearly that much of the states supply at least not anymore.
In 1957, when the Colorado-Big Thompson Project first went into operation, 85 percent of the water in the project was owned by agricultural users, according to numbers from the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, that oversees operations of the C-BT Project.
But today, only 34 percent of the water in the C-BT the largest water-supply project in northern Colorado is owned by agricultural users.
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http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/5674778-113/cities-percent-farmers-users
There are 20,000 fracking wells in Weld County alone. City of Greeley has leased water to the frackers, millions of gallons per well; fracked water cannot be used for agriculture or any other purpose. Our food production land is being forced to go fallow. We're being fracked to death.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)juicy, steamy hot profits will flow to the only ones who really matter now.
Genocide is just another word for too big to fail at our own expense. This is the long, slow, extended play version, perhaps?
If we play on this particular Monopoly board, then it is a good idea to get used to how the game is supposed to go. The rest is just commentary, shock, cognitive dissonance, etc. That's only going to go so far anyway as the concrete reality of it becomes unavoidable and, lo and behold, that's not money trickling down ... woah, and it's not trickling, it's gushing!!!
Just part of the nature of modern business. Stay calm and relax and enjoy what's left for now.
Javaman
(62,442 posts)I sit by and with a little to see which one will survive.
Those two trains? Big Agra and the Fracking industry.