How Colorado towns are trying to get some water certainty
by Alex Hager from NPR: Planet Money on (#6MKW5)
In Western Colorado, towns and farms are banding together to pay a hundred million dollars for water they don't intend to use. Today on the show, how scarcity, climate change and a first-dibs system of water management is forcing towns, farms and rural residents to get spendy.
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