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Why do you think water rights laws were (and still are) more strict in the West than in the East?

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Settlers needed water for immigration and mining because most of the land is desert. Women in the West often had more rights than women in other regions of the U.S because...... Their labor was needed for their families to survive. The issue of water rights was important in early Cali bc.....

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