Cost to water crops could nearly quadruple as San Luis Valley fends off climate change, fights with Texas and New Mexico ...Middle East

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Hundreds of growers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley could see their water costs nearly quadruple under a new plan designed to slash agricultural water use in the drought-strapped region and deflect a potential legal crisis on the Rio Grande. A new rule approved by the area’s largest irrigation district, known as Subdistrict 1, and the Alamosa-based Rio Grande Water Conservation District, sets fees charged to pump water from a severely depleted underground aquifer at $500 an acre-foot, up from $150 an acre foot. The new program could begin as early as 2026 if the fees survive a court challenge. “It’s draconian and it hurts,” said Sen. Cleave Simpson, a Republican from Alamosa who is also

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