#western us

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As most Western communities expect to grapple with water shortages this summer and fall, one is looking to share its unlikely surplus.

San Diego County in California spent nearly $1 billion on a desalination plant after a 1990s drought left it with scarce supply. Now, with the seawater-to-tap water plant running at just one-third of capacity, its water utility is shopping around deals to sell its water across the West.

Because of drought and minimal snowmelt, little water is expected to flow into Colorado River basin reservoirs this year, creating a shortage that could lead states such as Arizona, Nevada and Utah to try to buy excess water from San Diego.

“We’ve all collectively taken a step back and have realized we can’t continue to put a fence around ourselves,” said Dan Denham, general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority. “We can’t go at this alone any longer.”

It’s not yet clear how interstate transfers of water could occur — likely by Arizona or other states paying San Diego for its Colorado River water rights. Such transfers have never occurred and could require new federal laws or regulations.

Central Arizona water managers have been discussing the prospects of a deal for San Diego’s water, but have made no decisions, said DeEtte Person, a spokeswoman for the Central Arizona Project, the system that transports Colorado River water to most of that state’s populous areas.

John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told The Wall Street Journal this week he plans to sign “an exploratory agreement” with San Diego County. Mr. Entsminger could not be reached for comment.

Utah, meanwhile, has been exploring investments in desalination, including through a potential partnership with California that would involve trading California’s Colorado River water rights.

For a good time, put where you're from (general region, "e.g., Western US") in the tags and what you voted.

Mainly going with what I've always called "cold cereals". Cold cereals being often highly processed, often with lots of sugar added, typical American cereal aisle stuff. Also most puffed or popped cereals some of which aren't all that processed (corn puffs, rice puffs) In this case I am not putting muesli, granola or Weetabix/Shredded Wheat (non-frosted) in the "cold cereal" category even though I personally think of them that way. I sense from the comments there may be a big division there. Maybe I'll make a separate poll for them.

There are some cereals that are debatable if they are more like muesli/granola or more like a highly processed cereal... use your judgement how you want to count those if they are a big part of your cereal intake. If you eat those "cold cereals", but sometimes use cold milk and sometimes hot milk, or OJ or something, pick whatever you use the most/consider "standard" for yourself. I put "only dry" but if you eat them dry like 90% of the time or so, that is fine too.

With this in mind, there is little doubt that the drought in the West, especially the Southwest, this summer and fall will be the most intense in recent memory. The only real question: Will it last as long as the last extended period of drought from 2012 to 2017? Only time will tell.

There aren't any true wild horses in the US any more. The Western US has a population of free-roaming mustangs that are descendants of domesticated colonial Spanish horses and therefore are technically feral and not wild. – WTF Fun Facts