Can Colorado do more with less water?
As an overseer of cemeteries, Kendra Briggs knows all about expectations: Pastoral landscapes, lush and green and nicely manicured, dotted with shade trees and all of it nourished by the life-giving spray of irrigation. To many customers, it remains the standard for a final resting place.
In Colorado, those traditional demands increasingly collide with climate reality. Briggs, the president and CEO of the nonprofit Fairmount Cemetery Company, deals daily with the difficulties of scarce precipitation and challenging access to water. Even Fairmount’s centerpiece Denver location, the pastoral, historic grounds near the corner of South Quebec Street and East Alameda Avenue, battles brownout amid equally historic drought…