Water is the big issue. When you start looking at the distribution of clean, fresh water, you find that there is nary enough to go around. The media likes to reflect their own spin, but this truthout article hits a bit deeper into the problems.
Oregon is blessed to be higher up on the water food chain. I have a creek in front of the house that is still running well here in mid-September. The state claims it owns all of the collected water and has a very bureaucratic process for seeing that ownership rights are enforced on a first come, first served basis. The fish in the streams were assigned their water rights in the mid 1980's, so in very dry years it is okay to dewater the streams (according to the law). Silly law.
Looking at water catchments should be a natural conclusion of the water issues. If all landowners were encouraged to build small ponds with incentives to make them large enough to allow for a helicopter dip during fire season, we can get ahead of the drying trend.
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