Tough regulations of well pumping for farmers causing issues
(World News USA)

GREELEY - While Harry Strohauer lay unconscious in his hospital bed for four days, his doctor gave his wife an ultimatum. Strohauer had a reasonably good diet and farming hundreds of acres in Gilcrest kept him fit. His doctor, therefore, knew it could only be one thing that triggered his massive heart attack. `The first thing that the doctor - after talking to my wife a little bit - said was `you cannot let him talk to anybody about water,`` Strohauer said. Farmers need water. But Strohauer, like dozens of farmers along the South Platte River, has suffered from the effects of curtailed well pumping, the result of legislation, a Supreme Court case and battles with downstream surface water...