West’s Drought and Growth Intensify Conflict Over Water Rights
From The New York Times:
“Across the parched American West, the long drought has set off a series of fierce legal and political battles over who controls an increasingly dear treasure — water. …
“Residents of the arid West have always scrapped over water. But years of persistent drought are now intensifying those struggles, and the explosive growth — and thirst — of Western cities and suburbs is raising their stakes to an entirely new level.”
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