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If You Only Read One Book About the Water Crisis: ‘Cadillac Desert’

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The current drought out West only underscores a problem entirely of our own making: for too long we have rigged the price of water to benefit a favored few.

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Los Angeles and Phoenix would not exist without it. Nor would the Hoover Dam or the fabled agricultural production of California. Probably not one U.S.

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