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Water projects and federal incentives

Posted by jfleck on 18 May 2015, 5:23 pm

The culture of federal water projects has trained state interests, like a puppy to a dog biscuit, to believe that the federal government has limitless federal largesse and that no contract term will ever be enforced against state water project interest.

Robert Glennon, writing two decades ago, in Coattails of the Past: Using and Financing the Central Arizona Project.

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