Here in Chaffee county we have lost a lot of our water to Pueblo West. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that a rancher or anyone with water rights for that matter can sell "his" water to someone else for forever even years after he is dead.

Case in point there is a section of land near me that will be forever useless for raising crops or cattle. He sold water that has not yet and will not have flowed out the mountains for decades but he sold it and it is gone. PW will continue to grow and produce nothing but houses while land that produced cattle and years past eatable crops is gone forever.

So in other words people who sell "their" water to people downstream just screwed the people upstream forever. Am I correct in that thought or do I just not understand.