U.S. census data shows that population growth continues unabated in the South and West, even as temperatures rise and droughts become more common. That’s set off a scramble to find water in some places, for the current population and those still to come.
In this Monday, July 26, 2021, photograph, an experimental bore head is shown on the Terry Bison Ranch south of Cheyenne, Wyo. Figures released this month show that population growth continues unabated in the South and West, even as temperatures rise and droughts become more common. The problem for the northern Colorado town that bears the 19th-century newspaper editor’s name: Too many people have heeded his advice.
As a climate change-fueled megadrought engulfs the American West, some communities are going to extremes to protect their water supplies. Water has long been a source of pride for Greeley, which was founded in 1870 at the confluence of two rivers, the Cache la Poudre and South Platte. The New York Tribune, Horace Greeley’s newspaper, played a key role in forming what was intended as a utopian, agrarian colony.The city established its water rights in 1904 and completed its first water treatment facility near the Poudre River three years later, a system still largely in place.
In exchange for the aquifer — and a $125 million payment to the city for infrastructure — Greeley will issue the site’s former owner, Wingfoot Water Resources, raw water credits that the firm can sell to developers to connect new homes to the city’s water supply. “It’s a word that has a lot of context and can be scary,″ he said. “But Greeley would never deliver unsafe drinking water to its residents, including any water that had detectable uranium.″
But Greeley resident Sandi Cummings said city officials had not done enough testing. “This is so upsetting that we are even considering this,″ she said.
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