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paleotn

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6. Improved snow pack this Winter will help, but

Reply to nightwing1240 (Original post)

Sat Jan 7, 2023, 08:19 AM

Jan 2023

the long term solutions are probably not palatable in a deeply red, deeply religious state. What they've been doing for generations in the Great Basin isn't sustainable and it's going to take massive water conservation and reclamation to get them out of this mess. Are they will to do what's necessary? I'm not optimistic.

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