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aren t his alone. take a look at this u.s. drought monitor map. the darker the color, the worse the drought. atkin s ranch lies deep within that crimson red. we have about 200 reservoirs and every one of them is dry right now. like dry? nothing. we don t have a drop in any one of them, and we ve never done that in 85 years, never once. reporter: his operation is in the colorado river basin, which is primarily fed by melting snowpack from the western rocky mountains. the river then winds down to the gulf of california, supplying water to seven states along the way. but the basin is now in its 22nd year of drought. this is clearly evident further down river at the end of the nevada/arizona border where the river flows into lake mead, the largest reservoir in the nation, which 25 million people depend on for water. has it ever been this low before? it hasn t, not since filling in 1937. so we are anticipating the lower basin to be in the first ever

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