RBC I People today seem to take it for granted that Americans have lost any capacity for working through difficult problems, especially where cultural differences are concerned. That attitude has surfaced in response to Colorado’s water planning process.
Given the absence of additional unappropriated water, people say, more water for one group means less water for other groups, an unacceptable zero-sum situation, especially across Colorado’s trans-mountain and rural-urban “divides.”
Colorado historian Patricia Limerick lent credence…