Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir, is about 30% full and dropping, a water level not seen since the reservoir was first filled when the Glen Canyon Dam blocked up the Colorado River in 1963.
governors asked President Joe Biden to provide federal disaster funding for the West, parts of which have been in a drought for 22 years.
To raise those crops, farmers such as Boelts, who co-owns the 2,000-acre Desert Premium Farms, depend heavily on water pulled from the Colorado River. He's thankful that Lake Mead and Lake Powell have done their job of storing up water for farmers, but he worries what will happen if they run dry.Like many of his fellow farmers, Boelts takes pride in knowing he helps feed the country. He said keeping food production within U.S. borders contributes to national security.
She said southern Arizona may see unusually heavy rainfall when it isn't needed and dry conditions when water would help most. Although heavy rains this summer swept through the Dragoon Mountains of Cochise County, where Babcock's Three Sisters Land & Cattle ranch sits, the area about 70 miles southeast of Tucson remains in "moderate" drought.
Bacigalupi's 2015 novel, "The Water Knife," is premised on increasingly dire water shortages causing armed skirmishes and government-sanctioned dam sabotages between neighboring states.
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