TOPICAL ARTICLES

March 2003

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COLORADO: Meeting Water Needs in the Face of Diminished Supply - The Role of Water Conservation and Reuse

2002 was the driest year on record in Colorado. As a result, hundreds of thousands of acres of mostly public lands were ravaged by wildfires, many Front Range cities imposed mandatory watering restrictions, agricultural crop yields suffered, and the drought left Colorado's reservoirs at frighteningly low levels.