Lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam, which impounds Colorado River water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona, on July 28, 2014. Arizona won't have all the pieces of a Colorado River drought plan wrapped up by a March 4 deadline set by the federal government, state water officials said on Feb. 19, 2019. It's the latest hurdle threatening the seven-state plan to take less water from the drought-starved Colorado River, which provides water for 40 million people and 5.5 million acres of farmland. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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