Editor’s Note: This is the second part of an in-depth story published by Aspen Journalism in December.
RBC | But some experts say these proposed reservoirs are unrealistic wishes of the past, a vestige of the mid-20th century frenzy of dam building across the West that is mismatched for 21st-century conditions. They say if this scale of future development comes to pass, it would upend the system of water rights, as well as harm…