{"id":1267,"date":"2025-09-29T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:21:09","slug":"our-new-harsh-water-reality-includes-rapidly-depleting-aquifers-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/our-new-harsh-water-reality-includes-rapidly-depleting-aquifers-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Our new harsh water reality includes rapidly depleting aquifers (Letters)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Water solutions should be based on ‘facts and compromise’<\/h4>\n

Re “Colorado’s water war with Nebraska comes to a head<\/a>,” Sept. 21 news story<\/p>\n

It is interesting that this article made no mention of the Ogallala aquifer, which helps to deliver irrigation water for crops in Nebraska.<\/p>\n

Apparently, some parts of western Nebraska are experiencing significant depletion of the aquifer due to excessive pumping for agriculture. Climate change is also contributing to hotter weather, less rain and more drought in many western states.<\/p>\n

As part of any future legislation for water sharing and agricultural irrigation, we must face the\u00a0reality that water rights and water usage are going to be an increasingly pressing issue, and resolutions must be constructed based on facts and compromise, not threats and demands.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Logan, Centennial<\/em><\/p>\n

As we have a dispute between Colorado and Nebraska over water, and water districts impose water restrictions on homeowners, why are water districts and municipalities allowing developers to put more grass down along narrow strips next to roadways or by roads and sidewalks in communities that, over time, become weeds?<\/p>\n

It may look nice, but as they water it daily and during a time when we receive rain, they still have their sprinklers going while homeowners have to conserve. Talk about wasting our valuable resource.<\/p>\n

When are water districts and municipalities going to start facing reality, conserve our water and require developers to design something other than more grass, rather than placing burden on homeowners to conserve?<\/p>\n

Dave Usechek, Parker<\/em><\/p>\n

What to do about gun access?<\/h4>\n

Re: “No school is safe from gun violence<\/a>,” Sept. 21 editorial<\/p>\n

The editorial board was absolutely correct to suggest that Jeffco school officials were complacent about security at Evergreen High School. Several excuses given for not having a resource officer present strained credulity. However, I was taken aback by the board’s assertion that assigning security and hardening our schools is “the only response” to prevent school violence.<\/p>\n

The obvious solution, if we care about life, is to limit access to guns, especially the types that can be used to kill many people in a short time, and the kinds that can be concealed in a backpack.<\/p>\n