A Thought Exercise in Western Water, from the Near Future

Preface

What if the western US snowpack keeps declining — and the institutions keep failing at the same rate?

What follows is a work of near-future fiction. It is not a prediction. It is a scenario built from conditions that are measurable today: Lake Powell is at 26% capacity and falling, snowpack at record lows, seven states deadlocked on water allocati…

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