'Free water' was never free, writes a historian of the American West https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120122_western_water_op/free-water-was-never-free-writes-historian-american-west/
Subsidized water cultivated the West, but to accommodate growth without limits as the population boomed, this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.
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