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New technology could create incentives for Boulder County water rights holders to conserve more

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New technology could create incentives for Boulder County water rights holders to conserve more
Photo caption:  Taylor Sharpe, a CU Boulder Environmental Engineering Ph.D student, works on a water measuring device. The Colorado legislature has introduced a bill to fund CU/CSU research on emerging technology in water management. (Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer)

The debate surrounding the future of Colorado’s water can be boiled down to three words; conservation versus storage.

And with both sides having dug their heels in, neither side is able to make much headway, leaving Front Range communities with more questions than answers. How will governments accommodate the needs of an additional 2.4 million people the Colorado State Demography Office estimated will move to the state by 2050? Can agriculture survive on the high plains? What happens to riparian ecosystems? […]

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