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The gantlet leaves those nations in an unjust state of limbo.

Inventories of irrigation ditches across the Western Slope have become common in recent years and water managers say they have merit, but the publicly funded studies aren’t always made public.

Inventories of irrigation ditches across the Western Slope have become common in recent years and water managers say they have merit, but the publicly funded studies aren’t always made public.

Inventories of irrigation ditches across the Western Slope have become common in recent years and water managers say they have merit, but the publicly funded studies aren’t always made public.

Part one of KUNC's Republican River series showed how dropping river flows and groundwater levels are impacting farmers and ranchers in northeastern Colorado. From a 1930s flood to extended drought today, the river has been managed by three states, sometimes cooperatively and sometimes combatively. To meet the terms of a decades-old compact, 25,000 irrigated acres of Colorado farmland must soon be shut down. Part two looks at part of the history that got the basin to this point.