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The Western US is already running out of water — and summer is still months away
A section of the Central Arizona Project, a series of aqueducts and tunnels designed to bring water from the Colorado River to Arizona, runs through a subdivision in Gilbert, Arizona. | Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg/Getty Images This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Officials were already sounding the alarm bells in
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