By John Mattingly The right to domestic water, like the right to own guns, is constitutional. (Imagine Charlton Heston pointing at a glass of water.) The Colorado Constitution states no citizen of the state shall ever be denied access to clean drinking water. It’s a guarantee from the early days of statehood, when the East-West, urban-rural, wet-dry splits hardly mattered because there was plenty of water to go around. As Colorado’s population grew, the state still had plenty of water, even though a lot of the water originating in the state was successfully claimed by lower basin states, Colorado being ...