One of the nation's most successful partnerships between farm and urban water agencies has lately run into serious turbulence, potentially threatening an important Colorado River water-sharing deal. It was a promising alternative to the so-called "buy and dry" deals that have taken farmland out of production permanently in parts of the West. But now, tension is humming along a canal between Blythe and Los Angeles.
READ MORE ►Farm vs. city
State's landmark water-sharing deal may be crumbling