BOISE, Idaho — Idaho's water crisis has state lawmakers high-tailing it out of the Gem State.

Dozens of lawmakers and members of Idaho's agricultural community went to Washington, D.C., to ask Congress for help in building something that hasn't been built since Jimmy Carter was president: a dam.

Nearly fifty years after the Teton Dam collapsed and wiped out entire communities, some of those same communities are now part of a new push to resurrect it, possibly.

"In our group here that has come, we have the mayor of Sugar City and the mayor of Rexburg," said Rep. Ben Fuhriman. "Those are the two areas that were most devastated by the Teton Dam, but as representatives of those areas, they also recognize the importance of doing something, and we're not here to necessarily say, let's go tomo

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