AP fact check: Romney oversimplifies Western water shortage

Mitt Romney took up the question of water shortage this week in Utah, one of the driest states in the country, during a debate as he runs for a U.S. Senate seat in his adopted home state against Democrat Jenny Wilson. But federal water managers say he oversimplified a complex issue when he said Utah’s unused water allotment goes to California.Water use is a perennial issue in the arid West, especially along the overtaxed Colorado River, which supplies about 40 million people in seven South