And two pieces about what’s happening with water in the West:
- Luke Runyon checks in with a water district in Colorado that has imposed water taxes on itself, lest the aquifer that it depends on run dry.
- Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow report from Sacramento: New Deal-era water decisions threaten to clobber a massive rework of an aging water distribution network. A map by Sharon Okada, with four different colors to represent stakeholders, lays out how messy this problem is.