Water wars on the Wasatch

SALT LAKE CITYIt happened to Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young, a professional title examiner and a doctor.
Salt Lake City, which owns the water serving the town of Altaand also owns water delivered in ski resorts and canyon communitieshas multiple "surplus" water contracts outside its geographic boundaries that are under scrutiny by state lawmakers.
Those contracts, revocable by Salt Lake City at any time, allow it to nix development in Little Cottonwood Canyon and elsewhere by controlling w