No mere pipe dream (ColoradoBiz, October issue).

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(NO NICKNAME CHOSEN)

I'm sure that our grandchildren will much more appreciate the beautiful city of Denver with its 4 million people, and who knows how many new malls, than to see the lifeline of the West, the Colorado River, with water and fish flowing in it. That would be so boring. Material goods are our religion, our life. Forget nature, maybe there will be consequences for choking off our riparian areas, but maybe not. Let's go for the money and take the chance. The mentality of "growth for growth's sake" lives on in Colorado.

11/3/2006 8:15 p.m.

ARKANSAS VALLEY PATRIOT

Any thing that will take the 800-pound, oversexed gorilla off our back and give us a moment of peace for the next generation of our families would be wonderful. So, either cut growth/water usage on the Front Range, get water and a project such as this, or develop storage that enables water owners to bank water for sale to the Front Range. Lawyers and dictators have destroyed the trust and hopes of an...