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U.S. Government & Civics

Why is physical water supply alone insufficient to explain Colorado water use?

  • Legal rights, infrastructure, interstate obligations, and institutions also determine allocation
  • Reservoirs have no role
  • Water use is decided only by rainfall
  • Law never affects water
Correct answer(s):
  • Legal rights, infrastructure, interstate obligations, and institutions also determine allocation
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U.S. Government & Civics

Which water-rights doctrine is historically associated with Colorado and much of the arid West?

  • Prior appropriation
  • Riparian rights only
  • Open-sea doctrine
  • Maritime salvage law
Correct answer(s):
  • Prior appropriation
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U.S. Government & Civics

Why is Colorado water governance necessarily interstate?

  • State borders follow oceans
  • Only federal land uses water
  • No rivers leave Colorado
  • The state is upstream in several major river basins shared with other states
Correct answer(s):
  • The state is upstream in several major river basins shared with other states
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U.S. Government & Civics

What can rapid Front Range population growth encourage in water management?

  • Elimination of all reservoirs
  • End of municipal water systems
  • Dependence on ocean desalination only
  • Conservation, reuse, storage, and transfers among users or basins
Correct answer(s):
  • Conservation, reuse, storage, and transfers among users or basins
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U.S. Economy

What is a possible rural cost of transferring agricultural water to growing cities?

  • More ocean fisheries
  • Elimination of urban demand
  • Automatic increase in farm water
  • Reduced irrigated acreage and weaker farm-linked local economies
Correct answer(s):
  • Reduced irrigated acreage and weaker farm-linked local economies
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