(The Center Square) – Democratic lawmakers from Colorado — including U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and U.S. Representatives Joe Neguse, Jason Crow, Brittany Pettersen, and Diana DeGette — recently wrote to the Bureau of Reclamation to support the Colorado River Water Conservation District’s application to receive federal funding to buy two of the oldest water rights along the Colorado River mainstem in Colorado. Those water rights are known as the Shoshone Permanency Project. The lawmakers expressed support as part of an ongoing BOR funding opportunity to provide environ…