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	New Political Environment of Water Fast-growing state Colorado’s growth rate doubled from the 1980s to the 1990s. It became the fifth-fastest growing state in the union. An additional one million people settled in the state, 600,000 of those in the metro area. Many moved to areas such as Douglas County, the nation’s fastest-growing county, which is dependent on ground water and has limited renewable supply. The current projections for the next 20 years show more than 1.5 million residents will move to Colorado; the seven county metro area will gain 700,000. The new metro residents will require more than 100,000 acre/feet annually of additional water supply.
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