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Strengthen water conservation requirements in new and existing development. Increasing water use efficiency can prevent or alleviate drought impacts.

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Drought
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Multiple or All Assets
Property
Focus of action
Governance Capacity Building

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    • Teaching Water-Wise Landscape Design to Conserve Water in the Intermountain West
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    • Regenerative Agriculture in the Arid Southwest at Oatman Flats Ranch
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  • Dr. Charles Dixon/Cannon Air Force Base

    • Conserving Groundwater in the Ogallala Aquifer with Water Rights Lease Agreements
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