Solving the Water Crisis in the West

Years of unseasonably dry weather has left the desert southwestern United States in crisis. Reservoirs are going dry, crops are dying, and the millions of people who rely on fresh water risk losing it all.

Yet in other parts of the country, particularly in the north, extreme storms have added to a large snow base that once melted could cause flooding and millions in property damage.

Could politics be set aside to solve these two crisis at the same time?