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Despite owning river water rights, tribes largely cut off
A little-known fact about the Colorado River is that American Indian tribes own rights to about a quarter of the river. In reality, for most tribes, they are only “paper rights” not amounting to water they can use. Stephanie Sy reports on the opportunities and impediments ahead as a megadrought afflicts the Colorado and other watersheds in the West.
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