ALEX HAGER

ALEX HAGER: Hey, Darian, I’ve got a question for you. How much do you pay for water?

DARIAN WOODS, HOST: Well, hi there, Alex Hager, Colorado River reporter for KUNC in Colorado. Well, the answer to that question is I don’t really know. It’s all built into my rent. But, let’s say – I don’t know – $200 a year.

HAGER: All right. Well, how much would you pay for millions of glasses of water, like, a whole river full of water?

WOODS: A river full of water? I mean, it sounds like a management consultant interview question, but I don’t know – let’s multiply my bill by a million. A couple hundred million.

HAGER: Yeah, it would get expensive, and we have proof of how it is getting expensive. What if I told you that right now, there is a group in Colorado spending $100 million on access to water from the Colorado River, and their plan is to leave it in the river totally untouched?

WOODS: It’s a deal. This is THE INDICATOR FROM PLANET MONEY.