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> Water rights carry a legacy of centuries of personal and political history and thousands of competing interests.

So did slavery, and we managed to get rid of that.

Doing the right thing is really not that complicated, it just requires political will.

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>So did slavery, and we managed to get rid of that.

... with a civil war.

Doing the right thing is often quite complicated, and comes with severe costs and injury to some party somewhere.

600,000 immediate American casualties (not to mention the slaves) is not a great example here, of something being "simple"

COVID killed over a million. The culpability for that isn't simple either.

What does that have to do with this topic?

That may not be the example you want to use for something accomplished completely or without complication.

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