{"id":20,"date":"2022-12-12T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nelson.wisc.edu\/colorado\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:05:19","slug":"weird-economics-of-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nelson.wisc.edu\/colorado\/weird-economics-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weird Economics of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);\" class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-mini-bar wp-block-post-title\">The Weird Economics of Water<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex 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