New York Times article October 2007
“. . . . The biggest issue is that agriculture consumes most of the water, as much as 90 percent of it, in a state like Colorado. ‘The West has gone from a fur-trapping, to a mining, to an agricultural, to a manufacturing, to an urban-centric economy,’ . . . . As the region evolved, however, its water ownership for the most part did not. . . . “
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