9476

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9476
• Author: Colorado Foundation for Water Education.
• Title: Citizen's Guide to Colorado Water Law.
• USFW Year: 2003.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

Colorado's Water Future
Efficient water diversion and storage, benefi-
cial use without waste, recognition of all benefi-
cial uses that Coloradans value-these have
always been fundamental precepts of Colorado
water law. The era of their fuller implementation
is upon us.
As Colorado's water consumption reaches
the limits of its allotments under interstate com-
pacts and treaties, intensive water management
will become even more critical. Water manage-
ment decisions will involve examination of all
options. Conservation will be indispensible.
Inevitably, as each generation must learn,
the land and the waters will instruct us in the
ways of community. Thomas Hornsby Ferril
reminds us of this in his profound poem,
"Time of Mountains."
So long ago my father led me to
The dark impounded orders cf this canyon,
I have confused these rocks and waters with
My life, but not unclearly, for I know
What will be here when I am here no more.
Front Thomas Hornsby Ferril and the
American West, edited by Robert Baron, Stephen
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