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Scold water wasters. >> can't water in the middle of the day, ma'am. >> reporter: all measures she would like to see downstream. >> i think they're kind of kicking the can down the road, past the election, if you want me to be very frank about it. i don't 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 water deliver by 8% to nevada and 21% to arizona. >> you can hear this crunching, it's start to d...

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 don't 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 arizona. >> you can hear this crunching. it is just starting to dry up. >> here, alfalfa farmers are ...

Water back and let it play out, because at least they'll 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 climate. where is that money going? >> reporter: well, some of it will go to pay those ranchers, t...

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 our water supply by 2040. if all things are equal, we will lose an additional 10% of our supply by 2...

Of the fishermen and sometimes we're 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 we're all part of this system. how do you think people understand that these days? >> yeah, that's great. i don't think we do. i come from connecticut. i grew up on the east coast where water law is totally different. here it's first in line, first in right. it's treated like a mineral. ...