The Story
For more than a century, the Colorado River has anchored tense negotiations among the Western states and Mexico. Now the water is running short.
In Arizona, fresh residents keep arriving, farms keep expanding, and a new set of thirsty industries — semiconductor fabs above all — are sprouting across the desert.
Farmers, cities, tribal nations, and chipmakers all need to secure water rights. Who gets them, and at what price?
Who keeps their access and who loses it will decide Arizona's future — and, increasingly, the world's.
