Lithium extraction plan stirs Utah water debate | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

A plan to extract lithium -- the lustrous, white metal used in electric-vehicle batteries -- in southeast Utah is adding to an anxiety familiar in the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River.

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