Jeff Hurd: “Looking at what I would say, a large scale mitigation or…”

“They're also, with their deep roots, they're pulling salt up, and when the plants die, they're adding salt to the water into the land around them. So Looking at what I would say, a large scale mitigation or eradication of phreatophytes would be something else that I think we should look at and that the federal government is particularly well suited to provide. So protect the compact, make sure that our down basin cousins are living within their water budget, expanding storage, particularly high altitude distributed storage, and then looking at things like …” (30:49–33:09)

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