The future of water in the West

This month’s National Geographic has an interesting article entitled “Drying of the West.” The author takes an in-depth look at the long-term water situation in the western United States, narrowing in on the Colorado River, which “supplies 30 million people in seven states and Mexico with water” and “irrigates four million acres of farmland, much of which would otherwise be desert, but which now produces billions of dollars’ worth of crops.”