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Getting Water To The Dry, Dry West
Colorado Springs pumps water through the Rocky Mountains into town (Photo courtesy of the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau)
Out West, a lot of cities figure many more people will be moving in over the next few decades. Water engineers wish those people would bring along all the water they'll need, but of course they won’t. Shawn Allee reports these cities want to pipe more water from far away, and some people think that's a bad idea:
A report from Western Resource Advocates
A related story on water in the West
Producer: Shawn Allee
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Running Time: 3:36