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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:18 AM Original message |
Who owns Colorado's rainwater? (for real) |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. GOD |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. corporate control of water. nice nt |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. I own some land in CO, and if/when I build there, I'll put in |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. You better plan on doing it on the sly. If anybody gets wind of your |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:00 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Oh, absolutely. I read up on water law there (at least in how it relates |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:16 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. I think the coming years will see enforcement of this particular |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
45. DUZY Alert! That's good! |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
4. Wow, shitty state--not enough oxygen, not enough water. |
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BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:46 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:57 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Ewwwwwwwwwwww ..... yyyyyyeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss! |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. If someone can figure out a way to charge for having solar panels |
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GentryDixon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
51. Many states have this provision. |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
5. Geez - people need to learn to share! |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:40 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Actually, it doesn't even necessarily GET to waterways in very sandy soil, like |
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Democrats_win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. Relax. It's just noise. It never rains in Colorado. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Nebraska has some rights in regard to Platte River water, too--that |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
11. Gee, could it be because the land that the aquifers are in is |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Link? |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. I'll find it. It was a story here the other day. (Can't find DU link, here's story) |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yes, they need water to extract oil from the shale |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 04:24 AM Response to Reply #20 |
49. Sorry, I was in a hurry and I explained myself poorly. I have been known |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. You aren't alone! And thanks again for posting the articles for me |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
14. And now corporations own the Creators rainwater too? |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. Romer has the power to change the rules. Will he?? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
17. Bechtel tried that in Bolivia and got run out of the country by angry citizens. |
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NorthernSpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. that was a good day |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Guess who else used to be big in private water?? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:08 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. RWE owns our water here in Lexington. |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:44 PM Response to Reply #17 |
41. But not before gov't troops shot Victor Hugo Daza to death |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:59 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Next thing you know, they will charge you for inhaling the humidity in the |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
21. We're on an irrigation ditch with senior rights going back to 1927 |
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MattBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:08 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. That is not the problem |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:32 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. They wouldn't be able to take water if their rights were younger than ours |
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MattBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Still not the issue |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. That's not how our irrigation water is governed |
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MattBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. There is no local control at all? |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Water rights in Colorado are not a matter of topography |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:30 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Decades ago, I spent time reading litigation cases at the library |
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MattBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:30 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Which is controlled by a court system no? |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:40 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. No, it's not a local system that creates a fair and equitable system... |
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MattBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:38 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. I'm a New Yorker myself |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. So you're way up north in NY |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 04:24 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. No local control - that's right |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:21 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. Yeah, the bottom's falling out of the oil industry here in Colorado. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:35 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Exactly. I don't know why they jumped so fast to start up notions of oil shale extraction |
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NorthernSpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
23. If the ranchers own the rain, then they own the drought. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. do they write tickets to kids who catch snowflakes on their tongues? |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. I have heard this before and I think that it is utter insanity. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
43. water Barons cannot be allowed to own 'rain water' |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
47. Today it's rainwater, tomorrow it's breathable air... |
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tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
48. and this is why water should not be privatized |
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