The reality stopping water pipelines to the parched western US

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  Npr.

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  This is the indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong and I am joined today by Alex Hager of member station KUNC in Colorado.

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  Welcome to the show, Alex.

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  Hey, Waylon, thanks for having me.

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  It's great to have you.

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  So there has been a lot of confusion lately over how one of our most precious resources, wall water,

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  can be moved from regions in the US that have lots of it to places that don't.

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  A recent example of that confusion came up after the deadly fires in Los Angeles.

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  President Trump claimed that the US Military went to California and, quote,

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  turned on the water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond, end quote.

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  White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt repeated that claim to reporters last week.

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  Water has been turned back on in California and this comes just days after President Trump visited Pacific Palisades and

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  as you all saw,

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  applied tremendous pressure to turn on the water and to direct

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  that water to places in the south and in the middle of the state.

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  In fact, there was no spigot to turn on that could direct water to the Los Angeles region in this way.

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  Moving water around is complicated.

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  Still, that hasn't stopped people, including the president, from wondering,

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  if we have a lot of water elsewhere, why don't we just move it to somewhere that needs it more?

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