Agribusiness  July 5, 2022

Colorado’s 2023 draft water plan encourages ‘sharing’ to meet future needs

Fine spray from an automated farm sprinkler system in Weld County catches the sunlight on a cornfield east of LaSalle, off Weld County Road 26½. Prices on the water used to irrigate these fields are rising dramatically as the region’s largest supplier of agricultural water, the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, moves to approve increases from roughly $10 per unit today to $80 per unit by 2023. Jonathan Castner for BizWest
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Planning for water use in Colorado through 2050 has taken another step with a draft of the 2023 Colorado Water Plan, which is subject to public comment through Sept. 30.

The plan is available on the Colorado Water Conservation Board website, all 239 pages of it.

The plan contains no silver bullet for the challenges facing cities, farms, forests, recreation and conservation areas in the state. It does lay out the challenges and points toward potential solutions to a future far shorter on water than what the recent past has experienced.

As noted in quotation from former Colorado Justice Gregory Hobbs in…

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Ken Amundson is managing editor of BizWest. He has lived in Loveland and reported on issues in the region since 1987. Prior to Colorado, he reported and edited for news organizations in Minnesota and Iowa. He's a parent of two and grandparent of four, all of whom make their homes on the Front Range. A news junkie at heart, he also enjoys competitive sports, especially the Rapids.
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