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Salt Lake Tribune: Change comes hard to Western water policy. The Prior Appropriation Doctrine, interstate compacts, groundwater law, the "law of the river" -- all of these seem set in stone in the minds of the region's policymakers. Of course, the West's rivers aren't bound by such a static existence. Indeed, they are changing in fundamental ways, opening a wide chasm between our water policy and our water sources. This is particularly true for the Colorado River Basin. Climate scientists are ......
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Colorado River water policy faces an age of limits
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 22nd, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation