How this proposed constitutional amendment — Amendment D — protects water users

For decades, some of Utah’s larger cities have been in the retail water delivery business, building service areas that stretch far outside their municipal boundaries.Such arrangements served the state well, ensuring a stable water supply for outlying communities as they grew into cities in their own right. But they have also spurred fears that a big water-providing municipality like Salt Lake City could cut off its out-of-city customers, leaving them high and dry, or treat them unfairly in