The quote, “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over,” has been attributed to Mark Twain since it first appeared in the 1980s. There’s no proof that Twain actually said it, although it sounds like Twain and it captures the paradox of allocating scarce water in the West. Recently I spent a weekend at Grand Lake, Colorado,…
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