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Lawmakers Revisit Water Funding Plan

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(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers are again debating how to pay for future water projects. An interim committee heard testimony yesterday on a failed proposal that would have required some utilities seeking state money to meet a local-revenue threshold.

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