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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gabe Stern

To conserve, Nevada may try to buy back groundwater rights

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Marty Plaskett upgraded his farming equipment and spent $60,000 on new sprinklers to conserve water, even before the rural Nevada valley where he farms alfalfa began more strictly managing groundwater.

Now, Plaskett is weighing another adjustment: selling off part of his legal right to use water that lies under his land to the state.

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