Since the 1980s, Southern Nevada has been banking its unused Colorado River water, storing hundreds of billions of gallons away underground and in Lake Mead.
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Nevada gets less than a 2 percent cut from the Colorado River’s waters, but the state actually uses far more water than that each year.
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