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<p>An undated photo shows an aerial view of the confluence of the Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers at Miles City. A legal clash over water rights on the arid Northern Plains is bound for trial as attorneys for Montana press their case that Wyoming farmers and oil and gas companies are sucking too much water from tributaries of the Yellowstone River. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, Larry Mayer)</p>

<p>An undated photo shows an aerial view of the confluence of the Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers at Miles City. A legal clash over water rights on the arid Northern Plains is bound for trial as attorneys for Montana press their case that Wyoming farmers and oil and gas companies are sucking too much water from tributaries of the Yellowstone River. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, Larry Mayer)</p>

October 18, 2013

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Water trial opens; Wyoming criticizes
October 18, 2013 3:17 p.m.

Water trial opens; Wyoming criticizes

BILLINGS — Farmers and ranchers in southeastern Montana are being denied their “lifeblood” by upstream water users in Wyoming who are taking more than their share of water from the Yellowstone River basin, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox said Wednesday.