Thursday, September 16th, 2021
The dry lake bed of the Wickiup Reservoir is exposed by drought conditions that left the reservoir at 1 percent capacity on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, near La Pine, Ore. As catastrophic drought ravages the West, the irrigation districts with water claims dating back more than a century are first in line for scarce water while others just up the road with more recent claims have already run out. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)