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	New Political Environment of Water Projection left behind Water supply planning for the metro area’s rapid growth has underestimated the need. The metropolitan population growth projection of 2.3 million people in 2020, developed in 1988 by the U.S. Corps of Engineers for the Two Forks EIS, was exceeded 20 years ahead of schedule when the 2000 U.S. Census reported 2.4 million metro residents. DRCOG’s data suggests a water shortage existed in the metro area even before the historic drought.
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