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Lucas: What is the Bureau of Reclamation doing . . . so we can have more water in stream for fish?

Commissioner Keys, the Reclamation Act was passed way back in the beginning of the century. One of the things it says is that water has to be used for reasonable beneficial use, and state water law says the same thing. A court in New Mexico recently held that when the Bureau of Reclamation delivers water to farmers, it has to make sure that water is being used for beneficial use and not being wasted, like being flooded in fields when perhaps you can change the sprinklers or drift systems. What is the Bureau of Reclamation doing to get water use, current water use, more efficient so that we can have more water in streams for fish?

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