Meet the 27-year-old 'water buffalo' negotiating California's claim to the evaporating Colorado River

Meet the 27-year-old 'water buffalo' negotiating California's claim to the evaporating Colorado River

Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun

John Brooks Hamby was 9 years old the last time a group of Western states renegotiated how they share the dwindling Colorado River. When the high-stakes talks concluded two years later, in 2007, with a round of painful cuts, he hadn't reached high school.

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