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EGG_CREAM t1_iuw6rzg wrote

Reply to comment by Traumasaurusrecks in First-Time Visit to Colorado [2268 x 4032] [OC] by remyron

The problem is not people moving here, we have plenty of land. Nobody is developing enough apartments and houses, we're not on an island it's just plain greed. Stop blaming the wrong people here.

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Traumasaurusrecks t1_iuwa5r9 wrote

Sort of agree to disagree a bit. Another big part of the growth is water availability. We have been overdrawing the groundwater like crazy. Farmers get pushed out for housing developments in large part to get their water rights. But the groundwater is way way overdrawn. If you stopped 100% of human consumption in CO, it'd be 200 years of precipitation and aquifer recharge to return the water levels to the previous "normal" - it aint infinite and consumption volumes are increasing. But at the root of that is greed, and a water law system that is messsssyyyyyyy at best. So, how to address it is without just collapsing the system is difficult at best

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EGG_CREAM t1_iuwe3jp wrote

Water is and has been a huge issue out here forever, there's no argument from me there.

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Traumasaurusrecks t1_iuwlcod wrote

Thanks, and know that I definitely hear you though. Technically, there is tons of space. And housing costs are primarily a housing volume issue (and an investment issue). I work in water in other areas of the world, and we overlap into urban planning and such, and, oof - it does a doozy on planning and growth capacity

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