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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Local taps into water-rights businessBy Cathy Carroll / The Bulletin
August 5, 2004
When John Short bought 10 acres of land in Bend with llamas, a pond and an automated irrigation system, the former engineer was happy he returned from California to his bucolic home state.
Then about two years ago, the Oregon Water Resources Department told him the property never had water....