Water they doing

Water rights are regulated by people who have specific interest in profiting from the water distribution. Locally, our watershed council functions by consensus and works in the private sector to cover similar function of the soil and water conservation district - the SWCD described in the article. People are elected to serve on SWCD in mostly uncontested elections, and often are appointed by the existing members of a district when nobody chooses to run. Civics in action. Consensus is obviously not a concern in Colorado : this fits well with themes developed in the previous post. We the people are the government - public servants are servants, they do not rule the roost.