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The West’s most important water supply is drying up. Soon, life for 40 million people who depend on the Colorado River will change.

“We thought we could engineer nature… huge mistake,” the general manager of the Colorado River District says

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In an area near Wahweap Marina ...
RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post
In an area near Wahweap Marina that was previously underwater at Lake Powell, the earth is dry and cracked on April 5, 2022, in Page, Arizona.
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Seven states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — tapped into the river and unlocked the American West. But their agreement, the 1922 Colorado River Compact, eventually also steered the region toward disaster.
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