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Henry Hovey, 4, watches as water from Parleys Creek as it flows into the pond at Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. With a shallow snowpack, water runoff is expected to be less than normal this year.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY The western United States is in the grip of a once-in-a-lifetime drought that is threatening millions of acres of farmland and rangeland, drying up streams and creeks and forcing people to think about alternative landscaping choices that don’t suck up so much water.