The Western US is already running out of water — and summer is still months away

A section of the Central Arizona Project, a series of aqueducts and tunnels designed to bring water from the Colorado River to Arizona, runs through a subdivision in Gilbert, Arizona. | Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg/Getty Images

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Officials were already sounding the alarm bells in early March across the Western United States after a winter with historically low snowpacks...