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Liquid Assets--Turning water into gold

Number 22255
Subject Water
Source Denver Post
State CO
Year 2005
Publication Date Nov. 20-23
Summary Due to a unique water ownership structure established nearly two decades ago, suburban Denver communities have been forced to pay the highest water connection fees in the country. According to this investigation, this has created a competition for resources to fuel the booming population growth in the suburbs, creating an "unregulated and often untraceable commodities market in Colorado."
Category None
Pages 48
Keywords Big Thompson system;utilities;population growth;economic growth;Denver;commodities
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