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from The Spokesman-Review
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from WIRED
Media/News Company
The Tenuous Future of Water in the Desert Southwest
The urbanization of the southwestern United States is a modern legacy of Manifest Destiny, that nation-shaping vision of an America settled from sea to shining sea. But there was one problem: Westward expansion was predicated on adequate water supplies. That water was secured through a century of massive government dam-building and irrigation projects, diverting every major and minor water flow in the west. Those days are over. The greatest engineering project in human history has run its course.
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The Tenuous Future of Water in the Desert Southwest
The urbanization of the southwestern United States is a modern legacy of Manifest Destiny, that nation-shaping vision of an America settled from sea to shining sea. But there was one problem: Westward expansion was predicated on adequate water supplies. That water was secured through a century of massive government dam-building and irrigation projects, diverting every major and minor water flow in the west. Those days are over. The greatest engineering project in human history has run its course.
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