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Chicago Sun-Times
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Kathleen Ronayne | AP

Colorado River water supply to California farms could be threatened by hotter, drier future years

Larry Cox walks in a field of Bermudagrass with his dog Brodie at his farm near Brawley, Calif. Cox’s family has been farming in California’s Imperial Valley for generations. (Gregory Bull / AP)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Don Cox was looking for a reliable place to build a family farm in the 1950s, he settled on California’s Imperial Valley.

The desert region had high priority water rights, meaning its access to water was hard for anyone to take away.

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