State’s water supply report has dire warning

Eric Hecox has seen the projections and he wants Coloradans to understand there’s a dark cloud hanging over their state’s water future.

It’s all there in the 2010 Statewide Water Supply Initiative (SWSI) report issued in late January by the Colorado Water Conservation Board.

And it’s not pretty.

The SWSI report notes that, if water use in Colorado follows current trends, large supplies will inevitably be shifted away from agricultural uses, especially along the Front Range, resulting in significant loss of farmlands, economic damage to the state’s agricultural regions and potential environmental harm.

The report concludes that between 500,000 and 700,000 irrigated acres in…