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Scold water wasters. >> cant water in the middle of the day, maam. >> reporter: all measures she would like to see downstream. >> i think theyre kind of kicking the can down the road, past the election, if you want me to be very frank about it. i dont think anybody wants to make great public announcements about measures they may have to take prior to the election. >> reporter: rather than force new action, the feds will let the states keep talking, while the next round of water cuts will lower w...

Change your watering clock. >> all measures she would like to see happened downstream. >> i think they are kicking the can down the road past the election, if you want me to be very frank about it. i dont think anybody wants to make great public announcements about measures they may have to take prior to the election. >> rather than force new actions, the feds will let the states keep talking. the next round of automatic cuts will lower water delivery by 7% to mexico, 8% to nevada, and 21% to ar...

Water back and let it play out, because at least theyll have the water, but just a little hint of what is happening, john and brianna, when she was in charge here in vegas, they saw this, they spent $1.5 billion putting a third straw into the deepest reaches of lake mead, because they wanted to get all the water out of here. there is even talk now they may be looking at that engineering feat up at lake powell. >> really interesting. there is also, of course, bill, billions in this biden bill for...

Being paid to let their fields go fallow. some are switching their crops. >> crop switching, looking at lower water use crops is one of the solutions we need to be looking at in a drier future. to allow communities to sustain themselves. >> thanks to some creative water accounting, california will not face mandatory cuts next year. but their governor is already warning of a future with a lot more people and a lot less water. >> science and the data leads us to now understand we will lose 10% of ...

Of the fishermen and sometimes were not. >> reporter: everyone agrees for the west to survive, the most important two words today are "water conservation." >> i always try to remind myself that these water molecules are going to end up in a hot tub in hollywood or watering a putting green in palm springs. and were all part of this system. how do you think people understand that these days? >> yeah, thats great. i dont think we do. i come from connecticut. i grew up on the east coast where water ...

Shortages. so some growers of the processing tomatos, unlike heirloom where i am now, they are cutting back on acreage. that means tighter supplies, higher prices. for processors they find this enormously frustrating. >> we need to have balance, right? balance between making sure that everyone has sufficient water to both grow food and to still, you know, have the proper water for daily use. but something you cant wait until its an emergency. and i think often thats what we do is we wait until i...