The drought that has been socking Western states and farms for years has also dried up the mountain snowpack, prompting experts this week to call for a whole new system to collect rare rainfall.
The influential American Farm Bureau, citing climate change, said a shift to collecting rain must happen now because it could take up to 30 years to build a new infrastructure.
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