Placing more value on agriculture, tying water to land use and ensuring that growth pays for itself should be ingredients in the state’s long-term recipe for water use. “I guess we’re just not hungry enough yet to see that we ought to be pledging a limit for water to stay in agriculture,” Beulah rancher Reeves Brown told the Arkansas Basin Roundtable last week.
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Outlet: The Pueblo Chieftain
August 18, 2013