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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Question: To build water storage reservoirs, tunnels and pipelines, Colorado would have to issue construction <br />bonds similar to the bonds issued for transportation projects. It is estimated that about $2 billion dollars in new <br />construction is needed. One way bonds for water supply projects could be repaid would be a monthly fee on <br />water usage. A fee of $2 per month per water bill has been proposed. Businesses and bigger water users <br />would pay more. Would you support or oppose building new water storage, tunnels and pipelines funded by a <br />$2 monthly user fee on water bills? <br /> <br />Question: Another approach to pay for the bonds to build water supply projects would be similar to the way the <br />baseball and football stadiums were funded -- by a one-tenth of a cent sales tax. Would you support or oppose <br />a one-tenth of a cent sales tax to build new water supply projects? <br /> <br />Keep Colorado's Share of Colorado River Water <br /> <br />Colorado finds itself in the paradox of being home to the headwaters of several of the nation's most significant <br />rivers such as the Colorado, Rio Grande, Arkansas and Platte, but having limited rights to the water. In fact, <br />Colorado currently is in some type of litigation on each of the rivers over how much water downstream users, <br />including out-of-state farmers, cities, recreationalists and endangered fish and fowl, have a legal right to. <br /> <br />Water experts agree that the only river with excess water the state could claim is the Colorado, which begins <br />near the Continental Divide in north central Colorado and flows west through Grand Junction to the Utah state <br />line. Between 450,000 and 1.5 million acrelft of unclaimed, surplus water from the Colorado River flows <br />downstream and is used by other states. . <br /> <br />Keep Colorado's Surplus Water for In-State Use <br /> <br /> <br />K...p .urplll. wet.r <br />59% <br /> <br />D<ln'1 know <br />12% <br /> <br />Don't k....p .urplu. <br />28% <br /> <br />CilTJ/iA.."""t.. NGOI, Jt#.y 2002 <br /> <br />Question: See end note <br /> <br />Fifty-nine percent of Colorado voters say surplus Colorado River water should be kept in state and used here. <br />Twenty eight percent say the water should be allowed to flow out of state, The highest level of support comes <br />from the North Front Range (75%) and the lowest from the Western Slope (53%). <br />