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David Getches: The west is the most urbanized area in the country

David Getches: There are some great possibilities for ground water injection and storage, and there are many projects that are going on well beyond the experimental stage. In southern California, for years they've stored water underground from several sources including the Colorado River, and now they are reclaiming sewage, pumping it underground, and then re-extracting it for urban uses. This is the ultimate ingenuity in water conservation, and cities are having to look there. In the West, we are the most urbanized area in the country. Most people do not realize that: more people percentage-wise live in cities than in the country, and so we have to make the most of these scarce resources. That is one way of doing it.

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