Conservation offers a low to no-cost fix to water woes

Perhaps Santa Claus has the same knack for real estate that he has for delivering billions of toys in a single night. Although he must have a sizable heating bill in the frigid North Pole, melting icebergs nearby provide plenty of water for his workshop.

Unless we want to wait on Santa to deliver some of that water, we had better get moving on implementing our own water supply programs.

Down here in Colorado, our water supply and demand problems were addressed in a two-year study released on Dec. 12 to mixed reviews. The “Colorado River Basin Water Demand and Supply Study”…