The problem, which used to be limited to the arid West, has dominated community concerns in some of the most unlikely places.
But it is becoming increasingly common across the arid West.
Then, as always in the arid West, there is the question of water.
Another problem, especially in the arid West, is that in an earlier test the system seemed to lose excessive amounts of water.
And this much moisture in the arid West always promises good news, despite the chaotic way it has come.
Water, always a problem in the arid West, was offered with few restrictions.
However, wet places and good forage are scarce in the arid West.
For example, the arid West has some of the highest per capita domestic water use, largely because of landscape irrigation.
Such tensions have long been common in the arid West.
The agency was formed by Congress in 1902 to provide water needed to reclaim the arid West for farms and other human use.