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WE NEED TO LET SOLUTIONS FLOW TO SAVE WATER
“Tapped out,” by Allen Best (October) is a wonderful, beautifully written commentary, long on history and definition of the Western water challenges, but painfully short on answers.
Water banking is essential for survival, and alternative crops may replace some of the hay. But major structural changes in “prior appropriation” are absolutely necessary to permit, encourage and launch new saving techniques, long overlooked, including:
No longer flooding to avoid losing water, domestic reuse devices, rain harvesting, condensation harvesting, desalination of polluted mine water, investigation of two-pipe delivery systems, as well as a continuing emphasis on conservation along with the recognition that in the West, we are all in this together.
- JACK FLOBECK
CHAIRMAN, AQUA PRIMA CENTER INC., A THINK TANK FOR WATER RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION, COLORADO SPRINGS (COLOJACKF@MSN.COM AND
WWW.AQUAPRIMA.ORG)
CORRECTIONS
The October cover story “Troubled Water” should have identified Jim Lochhead as an attorney with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Lochhead has represented Colorado in river issues for many years,
IMA Financial Group Inc. was inadvertently omitted from November’s ColoradoBiz Top 250 Private Companies ranking. The Denver-based firm should have ranked No. 41 with reported revenues of $83.6 million in 2008.
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