A heretical response

Is a kayak course a beneficial use of water? Compared to what? Filling thousands of hot tubs in those condo blights that Colorado ski resorts have become? Irrigating all those new golf courses? Ensuring green lawns for the explosion of residential subdivisions on the arid foothills of the eastern slope? Or (in the eyes of all those golfers, skiers, and new suburbanites) boiling it in old steam engines that emit it as water vapor which is carried downwind until it condenses as rain over Council Bluffs?
Don't get me wrong, I hope the Loop gets all the water it needs. I'm just saying that when states worship at the alter of unbridled growth, these battles over finite resources are inevitable. Everybody can fashion a reasonable argument for why their pet "water project" is in the public interest. And I'll bet your former Governor Lamm warned everybody about this 15 years ago, Sam.
My solution? Quit brewing Coors. That would save the kayaking, enable Vail to expand its strip mall all the way over to A-Basin, and keep Loop in boiler water through this century. It would also have the side benefit of helping guys that drink Coors acquire better taste.
I hope I'm not in trouble with Don and Mike for talking a little politics here. After all, I did mention the Georgetown Loop and steam engines. " />
Brian