SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court has rejected a project that proposes to take water from the Colorado River system in Utah, pump it hundreds of miles across Wyoming into Colorado.

In a unanimous decision, the state's top court sided with the Utah State Engineer, who rejected Water Horse Resources application to take 55,000 acre-feet of water from the Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River, and pump it to the Fort Collins, Colo., area.

In a very technical ruling, Justice Diana Hagen wrote that Upper Colorado agreements do not pre-empt Utah laws governing water exports and the company hasn't shown enough that water taken can be put to beneficial use in Colorado.

"Based on these facts we find it difficult to form any level of belief, let alone a reasonable one, that Water Ho

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