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News About Americans and Their Water  - February

Roughly 40 million Americans living in dry, Western states, depend on the Colorado River and its tributaries for water, as Planning&#;s February issue relates.

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Those people (many of them farmers) live in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and California. These states, with little rainfall, share the river through a compact.

California, Nevada, and Arizona grew dramatically in the late 20th century, with California lapping up more than its share. Now, recent droughts have further reduced water supplies.

Government contracts already allow some Western farmers to sell water to thirsty municipalities and profit from the government&#;s decades of dam- and aqueduct-building.

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This system will probably expand.

How desperate are Western states for water? Desperate enough to consider &#;towing icebergs from Alaska,&#; according to Planning, or reac