And it's about all this water via snowfall that falls in the western slope of Colorado. And that water that shows up in the mountains of Colorado, a lot of it, you know, it Water [from the western slope of Colorado] feeds 40 million people, a good chunk of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. And as you referenced, there's a basically a hundred year old law written by the federal government that talks about these seven states as well as all the way down to Baja in New Mexico. (18:15–18:36)
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Asserts that water from Colorado's western slope is crucial for 40 million people across several states.
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