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Residents press county on 'paper' water, data-center impacts during review of water plan
Summary
Public commenters urged commissioners to distinguish paper water rights from actual water and warned that development and data centers could strain limited wet-water supplies; commissioners also asked staff to study data-center water and land-use options and possible code responses.
At the start of the meeting, public commenters pressed the commission to more clearly distinguish between legal water rights on paper and actual available water.
Mary O'Brien told commissioners that the draft's language implied an unchanged "water supply" through 2060 and asked, "What kind of water availability? Paper water or wet water?" She cited recent declines in regional water bodies and springs to question projections contained in provider documents referenced by the draft.
Another resident, Pete…
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