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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison 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. 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 is, 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

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