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The Bureau of Reclamation’s Oahe Diversion Project, ballyhooed for nearly 30 years as the savior of South Dakota’s family farm agricultural economy, is now being bitterly opposed by many of its supposed beneficiaries as construction begins. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.20/download-entire-issue