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A Path Forward for Water
Liquid Asset examines how the public and private sectors can better collaborate on our society’s pressing water problems.
The American West is struggling to maintain its river systems, with water diversions for applied uses having strained their ecology. Both public institutions and private entities have tried, separately and in tandem, to address the problem. The Western Rivers Conservancy is a nonprofit that purchases land and water rights for conservation. The conservancy—whose motto is “Sometimes to save a river, you have to buy it”—has restored waterways throughout 11 Western states for more than two…