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Data Dump: Is Colorado River demand management unfair to farmers?

It's complicated

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Jonathan P. Thompson
May 19, 2022
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Sprinklers and Four Corners Power Plant. San Juan County, New Mexico, 2022.

Last week, The Colorado Sun ran an opinion piece about the dwindling Colorado River and what role agriculture may or may not play in helping to shore it up. It was written by Don Schwindt, a Cortez, Colorado, farmer, and Dan Keppen, Executive Director of the Family Farm Alliance…

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