{"id":378,"date":"2014-12-02T20:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/water\/colorado-aims-low-in-using-water-but-wont-set-target-for-how-low-to-go\/"},"modified":"2015-05-22T20:08:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T20:08:56","slug":"colorado-aims-low-in-using-water-but-wont-set-target-for-how-low-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/water\/colorado-aims-low-in-using-water-but-wont-set-target-for-how-low-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado aims low in using water but won’t set target for how low to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"redesign_default\"><span id=\"MNGiSection\">Water conservationists are calling on Colorado leaders to set a clear target in the state’s first water plan: reduce use by 1 percent a year through 2050.<\/p>\n<p>But state officials crafting the plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/environment\/ci_26899759\/colorado-girds-proliferating-people-and-increasingly-scarce-water\" title=\"Colorado girds for proliferating people and increasingly scarce water\">to address a 163 billion gallon projected shortfall <\/a> are reluctant to commit \u2014 even though Gov. John Hickenlooper has called conservation a priority.<\/p>\n<p>An aggressive water-saving goal, if it spurred action, could put Colorado on course to closing its growing gap between water supply and demand, which looms as a barrier to future economic and population growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/environment\/ci_27047525\/colorado-water-use-aims-low-but-wont-set-target\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water conservationists are calling on Colorado leaders to set a clear target in the state’s first water plan: reduce use by 1 percent a year through 2050. But state officials crafting the plan to address a 163 billion gallon projected shortfall are reluctant to commit \u2014 even though Gov. John Hickenlooper has called conservation a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}