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Dry West Sends Out for Water
The next frontier in the West may be a billion-dollar system of water wells and pipelines. From here to El Paso, communities in the midst of huge development booms expect to spend fortunes to lay pipes from new water sources, some of them hundreds of miles away.
Failed
Deal in California Cuts Water for Nevada
As officials in Southern California prepared for cuts in water deliveries from
the Colorado River, neighboring Nevada was poised to lose 11 percent of what
it gets from the river, even though the state's water agencies did nothing
wrong.
Hopi/Navajo
Water Crisis
Peabody
Coal currently extracts over 3.3 million gallons of pristine,
potable water from the region's sole-source aquifer every
day to slurry coal 273 miles to Laughlin, Nevada. As a result,
the sacred springs and streams that the local people have
depended on for over 1,000 years are vanishing. What were
major springs are now totally dry. There are viable alternatives,
including alternate water sources and modes of transporting
the coal.
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