The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals.
This article won the 2011 Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism.
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Colorado has grown rapidly over recent decades, as more and more people crowd inside our borders. Our water, unfortunately, is a limited resource. And we're almost out.

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals.
This article won the 2011 Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism.
Click here to see this article as it originally appeared in 5280.