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Wyoming's cloud seeding program loses funding

Wyoming and other states in the west will need all the water they can get as a long-standing drought continues and the Colorado River shrinks. Wyoming was once a pioneer in cloud seeding, a scientific process that can increase precipitation by about 10%. But the future of the decades-long program is uncertain.

Wyoming Public Radio’s Caitlin Tan reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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