KZMU News: Thursday June 27, 2019

Four states – Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico – have watched shares of their water from the Colorado River flowing downstream for nearly a century. But now they want to claim that promised water with a massive water pipeline in southwestern Utah. Today we hear the final installment of the series “The Final Straw,” from our partners at Rocky Mountain Community Radio.

[Photo: Gary Turner uses his turf harvester to peel 2-by-5-foot strips grass at his Washington City farm. He says the land and the water rights are so valuable in this fast-growing area that he often gets offers for the property in the heart of Utah redrock country. Judy Fahys / KUER News]