The United Nations has released a report that should stop us in our tracks: we’ve officially entered an “Era of Global Water Bankruptcy.”

This is not rhetoric—it’s reality.

• 75% of the world’s population now lives in water-insecure countries
• Half of the planet’s major lakes are shrinking
• 70% of global aquifers are in decline
• 30% of glaciers have disappeared since 1970

The UN is unequivocal: in many regions, water systems have been damaged beyond realistic prospects of full recovery.

And here in Colorado, we are moving in the wrong direction.

In 2025 alone, oil and gas fracking consumed over 11 billion gallons of water, with each well using millions of gallons that will never return to the hydrologic cycle. That same year, 2,219 oil and gas spills put remaining water supplies at risk.

The planet is overdrawn.  

Our agricultural water system is reliant on our overtaxed water sources.  

But this trajectory is not inevitable.

We can act now—by stopping new oil and gas permits by 2030 and protecting the water we have left for our children, our communities, and our future.

https://www.safeandhealthyco.org/

This isn’t just an environmental issue.
It’s a public health issue.
An economic issue.
A survival issue.

Let’s act like it.