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Citizens Guide to Where Your Water Comes From <br />For most people, the question, "Where does your water come from ?" has a simple answer: <br />-- the tap." Accustomed to a clean, reliable water supply, it seems hard to believe the water <br />tour morning shower may have traveled more than 200 miles from a melting snowbank to <br />gh mountain reservoir, through tunnels, treatment plants and pipes. Or it may have been <br />ped from 2,500 feet below the earth's surface, tapping ancient water molecules that made <br />Nay into these aquifers during the Stone Age. <br />answer these questions the Colorado Foundation for Water Education developed the Citizen's <br />to Where Your Water Comes From. <br />s 33 page, easy -to -read publication citizen's guide uses beautiful maps and diagrams to <br />n how weather patterns and aquifers supply much of the water we use. It also highlights <br />tricate systems Coloradans have developed over the last 150 years to deliver this water to <br />household taps, businesses, yards, parks and farm fields. <br />Citizens Guide to the Environmental Era <br />The Citizen's Guide to Colorado's Environmental Era is the second history - related guide in the <br />Colorado Foundation for Water Education's on -going citizen's guide series. As a follow -on to the <br />Citizen's Guide to Colorado's Water Heritage, our authors extend the history timeline to recent <br />years, what we have labeled "the environmental era." <br />This project draws together the expertise of prominent historians and scholars from through - <br />out Colorado and the West. Their essays show how recent decades and the environmental <br />have shaped Colorado's culture, communities and landscapes. History serves to <br />remind us that our cultural and social bearings are constantly shifting, sometime imperceptibly, <br />other times at pivotal moments. <br />Concern for the environment comes out of a long tradition of preservation and conservation <br />in the United States. Around the turn of the century, the establishment of Yellowstone Park and <br />the Conservation Movement of President Theodore Roosevelt marked some of the first organized <br />advocacy for the sustainable use of forests, soils and water. <br />The modern American environmental movement has built itself of these conservationist and <br />preservationist roots —as well as on a mound of paperwork. We hope that you will find these <br />essays insightful and informative. <br />4 COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR WATER EDUCATION <br />