Hi everybody, Cheryl Atkinson here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today we're going to talk about something you may not think is going to impact you, but I bet it will.

It's America's Water Wars.

Well, I hope you find this week's cover story on full measure, which will air Sunday, April 25th, to be delightfully original and off narrative, something that probably most news programs haven't talked about in a long time.

And maybe you didn't know much about it.

I certainly didn't before I started covering the story.

It has to do with what I call America's water wars.

And there are water wars going on across the country.

They take a lot of different forms depending on the region that you live in.

And for my cover story, I decided to focus on

the Colorado River and a particular dispute that's going on centered in Arizona. So let's back up a

little bit and give some background because there are a lot of people probably like me who lived in

places like the East Coast or maybe other places that don't have the same

water concerns that they have out west. They have different water concerns, but not the same ones.

This is really interesting because this involves the Colorado River, which as you know,

cuts through the Grand Canyon. It spans seven states. And it supposedly provides water

to about 40 million people and about five and a half million acres of farmland. To some,

this has become as valuable as oil. And all the questions lie in, who has the right to use it

and to take it, who owns it? This question's gone way back. Early Americans

who were settling the West began moving water from the beginning. They had to for mining or farming,

and they basically laid the groundwork for the very system that we are using today as far as

who has the right to do what with water. In 1922, seven states, the ones where the

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