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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:57 AM
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13. Ewwwwwwwwwwww ..... yyyyyyeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss!
(rubs hands together with mendacious glee).....
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  -Who owns Colorado's rainwater? (for real) ensho  Mar-24-09 11:18 AM   #0 
  - GOD  liberal N proud   Mar-24-09 11:19 AM   #1 
  - corporate control of water. nice nt  msongs   Mar-24-09 11:22 AM   #2 
  - I own some land in CO, and if/when I build there, I'll put in  TwilightGardener   Mar-24-09 11:24 AM   #3 
  - You better plan on doing it on the sly. If anybody gets wind of your  kestrel91316   Mar-24-09 11:47 AM   #10 
     - Oh, absolutely. I read up on water law there (at least in how it relates  TwilightGardener   Mar-24-09 12:00 PM   #15 
        - I think the coming years will see enforcement of this particular  kestrel91316   Mar-24-09 02:16 PM   #22 
        - DUZY Alert! That's good!  ddeclue   Mar-24-09 05:42 PM   #45 
  - Wow, shitty state--not enough oxygen, not enough water.  MADem   Mar-24-09 11:29 AM   #4 
  - Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun  BadgerKid   Mar-24-09 11:46 AM   #9 
  - Ewwwwwwwwwwww ..... yyyyyyeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss!  MADem   Mar-24-09 11:57 AM   #13 
  - If someone can figure out a way to charge for having solar panels  liberal N proud   Mar-24-09 12:32 PM   #18 
  - Many states have this provision.  GentryDixon   Mar-25-09 12:24 PM   #51 
  - Geez - people need to learn to share!  LaurenG   Mar-24-09 11:34 AM   #5 
  - Actually, it doesn't even necessarily GET to waterways in very sandy soil, like  TwilightGardener   Mar-24-09 11:40 AM   #6 
  - Relax. It's just noise. It never rains in Colorado.  Democrats_win   Mar-24-09 11:41 AM   #7 
  - Nebraska has some rights in regard to Platte River water, too--that  TwilightGardener   Mar-24-09 11:43 AM   #8 
  - Gee, could it be because the land that the aquifers are in is  acmavm   Mar-24-09 11:55 AM   #11 
  - Link?  eleny   Mar-24-09 11:56 AM   #12 
     - I'll find it. It was a story here the other day. (Can't find DU link, here's story)  acmavm   Mar-24-09 12:56 PM   #19 
        - Yes, they need water to extract oil from the shale  eleny   Mar-24-09 01:57 PM   #20 
           - Sorry, I was in a hurry and I explained myself poorly. I have been known  acmavm   Mar-25-09 04:24 AM   #49 
              - You aren't alone! And thanks again for posting the articles for me  eleny   Mar-25-09 12:14 PM   #50 
  - And now corporations own the Creators rainwater too?  winyanstaz   Mar-24-09 11:58 AM   #14 
  - Romer has the power to change the rules. Will he??  dkofos   Mar-24-09 12:05 PM   #16 
  - Bechtel tried that in Bolivia and got run out of the country by angry citizens.  alfredo   Mar-24-09 12:05 PM   #17 
  - that was a good day  NorthernSpy   Mar-24-09 02:20 PM   #25 
  - Guess who else used to be big in private water??  KamaAina   Mar-24-09 02:21 PM   #26 
  - RWE owns our water here in Lexington.  alfredo   Mar-24-09 03:08 PM   #27 
  - But not before gov't troops shot Victor Hugo Daza to death  derby378   Mar-24-09 04:44 PM   #41 
     - Next thing you know, they will charge you for inhaling the humidity in the  alfredo   Mar-24-09 04:59 PM   #42 
  - We're on an irrigation ditch with senior rights going back to 1927  eleny   Mar-24-09 02:08 PM   #21 
  - That is not the problem  MattBaggins   Mar-24-09 03:08 PM   #28 
  - They wouldn't be able to take water if their rights were younger than ours  eleny   Mar-24-09 03:32 PM   #30 
     - Still not the issue  MattBaggins   Mar-24-09 03:44 PM   #33 
        - That's not how our irrigation water is governed  eleny   Mar-24-09 03:53 PM   #34 
           - There is no local control at all?  MattBaggins   Mar-24-09 04:00 PM   #35 
              - Water rights in Colorado are not a matter of topography  Robb   Mar-24-09 04:06 PM   #36 
              - Decades ago, I spent time reading litigation cases at the library  eleny   Mar-24-09 04:30 PM   #38 
              - Which is controlled by a court system no?  MattBaggins   Mar-24-09 04:30 PM   #39 
                 - No, it's not a local system that creates a fair and equitable system...  eleny   Mar-24-09 04:40 PM   #40 
                    - I'm a New Yorker myself  MattBaggins   Mar-24-09 05:38 PM   #44 
                       - So you're way up north in NY  eleny   Mar-24-09 05:53 PM   #46 
              - No local control - that's right  eleny   Mar-24-09 04:24 PM   #37 
  - Yeah, the bottom's falling out of the oil industry here in Colorado.  backscatter712   Mar-24-09 03:21 PM   #29 
     - Exactly. I don't know why they jumped so fast to start up notions of oil shale extraction  eleny   Mar-24-09 03:35 PM   #31 
  - If the ranchers own the rain, then they own the drought.  NorthernSpy   Mar-24-09 02:18 PM   #23 
  - do they write tickets to kids who catch snowflakes on their tongues?  dysfunctional press   Mar-24-09 02:19 PM   #24 
  - I have heard this before and I think that it is utter insanity.  GreenPartyVoter   Mar-24-09 03:38 PM   #32 
  - water Barons cannot be allowed to own 'rain water'  quaker bill   Mar-24-09 05:20 PM   #43 
  - Today it's rainwater, tomorrow it's breathable air...  LanternWaste   Mar-24-09 05:56 PM   #47 
  - and this is why water should not be privatized  tabbycat31   Mar-24-09 06:05 PM   #48 
 

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