A film documenting this tragedy is
currently in production and seeks to show the world what is happening to
these tremendous resources.
Why you should care:
1. When water is used by local agriculture for a hay meadow, as an example, most of it seeps back into the water table. The water is used, but much of it is reclaimed.
When water is diverted through pipes under the Continental Divide and on to the Front Range — it is lost forever.
2. Unless we get involved and express our concerns, the Windy Gap Firming Project, combined with Denver Water's Moffat Firming Project the Colorado and Frasier Rivers could dry up. The North Fork of the South Platte is already losing thousands of fish each winter due to lack of flow and water pollution.
When you dry up the rivers, you
dry up a majority of your tourism industry. You dry up your economy. You
dry up the reason that fishermen, rafters, kayakers and picnickers come to spend their vacations and their vacation dollars. You dry up
critical wildlife habitat. You dry up wild places. You dry up the heart and soul of the West.
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