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The water crisis facing the Western U.S. may be as serious, if not more so, than the energy crisis, because water is critical and limiting to any further growth and development in our western and Great Plains drylands.
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Sabadell, J.E. (1981). Risk Assessment: Arid and Semiarid Lands Perspective. In: Haimes, Y.Y. (eds) Risk/Benefit Analysis in Water Resources Planning and Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2168-0_18
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