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Guest Post: The Colorado River Compact hasn't aged well

By George Sibley

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Jun 13, 2022
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Editor’s Note: This morning, just as I was wrapping up a dispatch about coming back to the Homeland for today’s Land Desk, this George Sibley piece from Writers on the Range landed in my inbox. After reading it I thought: I’ve got to link to this because it’s such a nice, concise explainer of the “Law of the River.” And then I thought, Wait, I’ll just r…

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