By Elliot Jackson The news coming from the Colorado State Demography Office, by way of a July 2017 article in the Denver Post, is eye-opening: by 2050, the state’s population is predicted to rise to 8.5 million – a 50 percent increase from 2015 levels. Most of this growth is projected to take place along the already highly-developed Front Range, and all of this growth will be, must be, fueled by siphoning more and more water from other parts of the state – water mostly used now for agricultural purposes. That siphoning has already started to occur in the central ...