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The HCN Wire Our Editor's picks from around the West: Lessons From Oil Industry May Help Address Groundwater Crisis; More Oversight Sought for Hydraulic Fracturing - NYTimes.com; California's higher-ed debacle -- LA Times; The Halliburton Loophole - NYTimes.com; More

More from Water: The Delta Blues California’s Water Buffaloes appear poised for another water grab; The diplomacy of water Norris Hundley's magisterial Water in the West is back in print to enlighten readers about water politics, especially the Colorado River Compact.; Well hell, continued Drinking water wells in the Lower Yakima Valley pump "toilet bowl" water. Ick.; All Water

Related Keywords: Lena Fowler; Colorado River Compact; Stanley; Pollack; water rights; Ron Milford; Native Americans; Western water; Navajo Nation; Navajo activists; politics; Peter MacDonald; Max Goldtooth

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