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Even during chilly January afternoons, tumbleweeds roll across the Sonoran Desert, landing just shy of the metal gate marking Oliver Anderson’s farm.
"It used to be called the Nile of the West, which is almost impossible to believe these days," said one water policy expert.
The multi-state research project has the goal of providing tools to sustain irrigated agriculture in the Southwest, without running aquifers dry.
Nancy Caywood's family is known for growing cotton, but there isn't enough water for it this year.
Tier 1 shortage will result in fallow fields, fewer livestock, Farm Bureau official says.