By MORGAN GARRISON
Montana is a big state. It has big, wide-open spaces, big, tall mountains, and big, blue skies. But, in all that bigness there is one resource that is absolutely finite, and that’s water. With population and development expanding in the state, water allocation has become a forefront issue that was pushed to a head in early November 2025 with the filing of a lawsuit in Lewis and Clark District Court.
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