That was one of the inspirations behind the Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative (WERC), a partnership with the national nonprofit Report for America and local news organizations across the ...

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A century-old Oregon water law lets one wealthy region turn the desert green while water-starved ag fallows commercial crops.

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