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<br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br /> <br />THE DENVER POST <br /> <br />Thursday, F<lbruary 26,2004 <br /> <br />Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire <br /> <br />Metro briefs <br />Meeting sizes up region's water'woes <br /> <br />Thursday, February 26, 2004 - Metro Denver and the rest of northeast Colorado are p'rojected to <br />add 1.9 million people by 2030 to the 3 million here today, and the region doesn't have nearly <br />enough water to supply all of them, state water and growth experts said Wednesday. <br /> <br />"It scares ,.. me," state Agriculture Commissioner Don Ament said during a break in a six-hour <br />meeting in Westminster on water supply and demand. . <br /> <br />Water providers, government officials, environmental Interests and others are participating in the <br />Statewide Water Supply Initiative, an IS-month, state-funded study that measures growth and water <br />needs and compares them to current supplies and proposed solutions. <br /> <br />Agriculture has been the most frequent target of cities to gather water for growth. Ament said that if <br />the trend continues, it will sink the farming industry. <br /> <br />The South Platte River Basin, which takes in the northeast corner of the state, already has lost <br />60,000 acres once used for farming because growing cities have bought up water rights, he said. <br /> <br />Environmentalists urged more water conservation. <br /> <br />. <br />, <br /> <br />> <br />, <br />