Empty canals, dead cotton fields: Arizona farmers are getting slammed by water cuts in the West

https://flip.it/_nCjnH  Empty canals, dead cotton fields: Arizona farmers are getting slammed by water cuts in the West

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• •On the drought-stricken land where Pinal County farmers have irrigated crops for thousands of years, Nancy Caywood stopped her pickup truck along an empty canal and pointed to a field of dead alfalfa.
• •"It's heart wrenching," said Caywood, a third-generation farmer who manages 247 acres an hour outside of Phoenix.
• •An intensifying drought and declining reservoir levels across the Western U.S. prompted the first-ever cuts to Arizona farmers' water supply from the Colorado River