NPR. Hey Darien, I've got a question for you. How much do you pay for water?

Well, hi there, Alex Hager, Colorado River Reporter for K-U-N-C-N-C-N-C-N-C-N-C-N-C-C-N-C-O-Rado?

Well, the answer to that question is... for K-U-N-C-N-C-N-C-N-C-O-R-O-T-E-T-E-T-E-N-C-N-C-C-N-C-N-C-O-Ror-O-R-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-C-O-T-E-C-C-O-S-C-C-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O I don't know $200 a year. All right, well, how much would you pay for millions of glasses of water, like a whole river full of water?

A river full of water?

I mean, it sounds like a management consultant interview question, but I don't know let's

let's multiply my bill by a million, a couple of hundred million.

Yeah, it would get expensive and we have proof of how it is getting expensive.

What if I told you that right now there is a group in Colorado spending a hundred million dollars on access to water from the Colorado River and their plan is to leave it in the river totally untouched.

It's a deal. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Jerry Woods.

And I'm Alex Hager. The Western US has less water to go around every year

thanks to climate change, but it also has more people

turning on their sinks, showers, and sprinklers.

That is forcing cities, farms, and even states to get anxious and

spendy to make sure those taps keep flowing in the future. And for one community

that means paying for the status quo. We'll explain after the break.

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