People in the booming beer industry in Colorado worry about predicted water shortages and threats to the high quality of Rocky Mountain water.
New Belgium brewer Kelly McKnight at the company's facility in Fort Collins, Colorado.Courtesy of New Belgium Brewing
By
Lindsay Fendt
DENVER—There’s an old saying in the West: Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over.
In Colorado, home to more breweries than almost any other state, it’s probably more accurate to say that beer is for drinking. And although brewers haven’t yet come to blows over access to their product’s main ingredient, the state’s water is on its way to becoming a fought-over commodity.
