Colorado has 24 major tunnels that move water from western Colorado to eastern Colorado under the Continental Divide... that never gets to Lake Powell, etc.
Thanks, didn’t know the exact number but knew about them in general. Yes, western slope govts made a huge mistake not protecting its water decades ago. Couldn’t refuse the money, didn’t realize that water IS money.
Near where I live now there is a monument to Wayne Aspinall with his famous quote:
“In the West, when you touch water, you touch everything.”
I wonder what he would say about today’s situation.