REXBURG – When it comes to managing Idaho’s most abundant natural resource, Sen. Kevin Cook, R-Idaho Falls, believes water storage is a critical component that’s often overlooked.

During a seminar co-hosted by the Henrys Fork Watershed Council and the Eastern Idaho Water Rights Coalition at the Romance Theater in Rexburg Tuesday morning, the District 32 legislator highlighted numerous storage projects as a way to boost how water is managed in the Gem State.

“We send about 1.5 to 2 million acre-feet of water down the river and out into the ocean,” Cook explained. “Some of that is necessary (but let’s work to) … keep water in Idaho where we can use it.”

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