Cost to water crops could nearly quadruple as San Luis Valley fends off climate change, fights with Texas and New Mexico

Hundreds of growers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley could see their water costs nearly quadruple under a new plan designed to slash agricultural water use in the drought-strapped region and deflect a potential legal crisis on the Rio Grande. A new rule approved by the area’s largest irrigation district,…

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