Western water retreats as Sierra snow pack shrinks.

All over the West there is a drought. Our nation's frantic search for desert heat and beautiful places to live, and our assumption that dams and technology will provide is failing. Soon, perhaps not this year or next, but in the next twenty or thirty years, fresh water will become important. And for those of us on the Great lakes, this brings both peril and promise. Promise that we live on the world's largest bodies of freshwater, and peril that the rest of our nation will try to steal it.

See the future in this article on California water