Living through a drought that could end up being one of the worst in a thousand years certainly doesn’t help. But the water shortage threatening the West “is as much a man-made crisis as a natural one, the result of decades of missteps and misapprehensions by governments and businesses as they have faced surging demand driven by a booming population.” ProPublica with the first of five part series. Holy Crop: How federal dollars are financing the water crisis in the West.