"An unlikely advocate seems to be around every bend of the Colorado River these days: the Walton Family Foundation.
The $3.65 billion organization launched by Walmart founder Sam Walton has become ubiquitous in the seven-state basin that provides water to 40 million people, dishing out $100 million in grants in the last five years alone.
"It is unprecedented — the scale and duration of investment," said Dustin Garrick, a former Walton grantee and Oxford University professor who has studied the role of philanthropy in river basins around the world.
The foundation's reach is dizzying and, outside the basin, has received scant attention."
Jeremy P. Jacobs reports for Greenwire April 17, 2019.
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