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Colorado’s “80/20 Rule”

Posted by jfleck on 28 January 2010, 5:26 pm

Reading slides from a presentation by Colorado River Water Conservation District general counsel Peter Fleming, I ran across a rule of thumb governing water politics there, the “80/20 rule”: 80 percent of the water is west of the continental divide, and 20 percent is east. For population, the numbers are reversed.

This seems a useful insight.

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