T.J. Atkin's family has been in the cattle ranching business for nearly a century. In that time, he says, a drought has never hit their operations this hard.
"Everyone else I've talked to says in 85 years, it has not been this bad," Atkin told CNN."We have 85 years' worth of our own drought data that says we've never done this ... not to this extent."Atkin, carrying on his family's legacy as a rancher, operates two properties in Utah and northwest Arizona, both of which have been experiencing an extended severe drought.
Roughly 25 million people rely on Lake Mead's water, and the Colorado River provides drinking water to more than 40 million people in Arizona, Nevada and parts of Mexico. The US Bureau of Reclamation projects Lake Mead's water levels will continue to decline, leading to potentially its first-ever water shortage.
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