Cities to ag: No extra water to lease this year

[madamesilverspurs]

from the article:
Agriculture uses about 85 percent of the state’s water, according to the Colorado Division of Water Resources, but the ag industry doesn’t own nearly that much of the state’s 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]

1. Oh, but the big

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]

2. Two freight trains full of water going at full speed on the same track heading for collision...

I sit by and with a little to see which one will survive.

Those two trains? Big Agra and the Fracking industry.