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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 0734 13 becoming along the east front range 0 highly industrialized city society and the cities nove grown and expanded their demands greatly. This in turn means that they ore either going to buyout the water rights of the formers or impurt more water. Well, they nove about imported all they con and so they don't want to have a desert surrounding the city and consequently the cities now are becoming more effective ~y the use of water met8rs, by the use of coPturinJ ana recaptur- ing sewqge and using reclaimed waters for tne ~rrigati~n of parks, and the whole cJcle is one of more tolerence and basic- ally a major thrust upon the 010 priority system which has hod to become flexible and to accommodate the n""..ds of the people rather than to be operated in a vacuum in accordance with legal principle. The ability to drill wells has also made possible the tapping of what is called "deep water." These ore, generally speaking, sandstone formations a depth of 500 to 1,500 feet and these hove produced substantial quantities of water, It is these some farmativns which lock in millions of acre-feet of water in the great plains in Eastern Colorado. Likewise, the courts never historically decreed water rights in these aeep sandstones and 50 manjl people know th'at if they can establ ish o well in deep sand and get 0 decree for it thct they ore going to hove a very good water right. The problem is though that everybody else wants to dO the some thing and whoe happens W,len you hove 100 wells in close prosimi ty each drawing on the other? And there is no solution to this at the present time.