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This Green Earth

The Complicated World of Water Rights

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People attend a news conference on Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, April 11, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday, May 22, proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years.
John Locher

Journalist David Owen, whose been a staff writer for the New Yorker for more than three decades, joins the show to discuss his book "Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River".

Owen walks us through the patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructures, and agricultural uses pertaining to the Colorado river and their subsequent effects.

Co-host of KPCW's This Green Earth.
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