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California's Stake in the Colorado River <sup>a</sup>
Abstract
Abstract California has an enormous stake in the Colorado River. In the southern portion of the State, 80 percent of the water used is furnished by the Colorado River, and this area needs still more water in the immediate years ahead. But it cannot get more from the natural supply of the Colorado. The river is already over‐committed, and California in fact may have to cut back on its present take from that source. This is not the Colorado River in Texas; Los Angeles has gone hundreds of miles to get water, but has not reached that far east‐yet.
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