{"id":27605,"date":"2023-02-02t20:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02t20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/?p=27605"},"modified":"2023-05-02t20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02t20:36:00","slug":"beyond-the-soil-water-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/beyond-the-soil-water-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"beyond the soil | water in colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>colorado has been dealing with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.du.edu\/news\/qa-environmental-expert-weighs-colorados-megadrought#:~:text=meanwhile%2c%20all%20of%20colorado%20has,over%20the%20past%202%2c000%20years.\">megadrought conditions for the last 22 years,<\/a>&nbsp;with an accompanying increase in demand for water from population growth. as a result, water prices in the state are rising exponentially while farmers and ranchers are left with a hefty price tag. farmer and rancher, mike peterson, and irrigation manager, michael vicenti, live on opposite ends of colorado, but their stories are far more similar than one might expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this photo essay creates a geographically organized story using photos and interviews from the upcoming \u201chold our ground\u201d soil health documentary series produced by colorado state university&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journalism.colostate.edu\/center-for-science-communication\/\">center for science communication.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to view the story in fullscreen, click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/e0a4911161b0e57e250d25d2bc5acd8b\/test\/index.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/e0a4911161b0e57e250d25d2bc5acd8b\/test\/index.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">this story was featured in our series, <em>slipping through our fingers: the future of water<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='acf-gut-block'><section class=\"cta-buttons layout-center\">\n\t\t<a href=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/slipping-through-our-fingers\/\" class=\"btn btn--lightblue single-cta \" target=\"\">see the full series<\/a>\n\t<\/section><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in this photoessay, explore the geography of colorado&#8217;s agricultural water needs through the stories of two men living in opposite corners of the state, but whose experiences surrounding the need for irrigated water are incredibly similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4919,4904],"tags":[4944,591,37],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-27605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-water","tag-soil-health","tag-storyfest","tag-water"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v23.4 - 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