The word "crisis" can certainly be overused--especially on cable TV news--but its use is warranted in discussing water in the Klamath Basin this year.
The area around Upper Klamath Lake, headwaters for the river system, got very little snowpack or rain over the winter. So there's almost no water for irrigators, and precious little for the survival of fish species in the lake, and downstream in the Klamath River.
The hold the senior water right in the Upper Basin, and the on the Lower Klamath is working to avoid a major fish kill this year. Klamath Chairman Don Gentry and Yurok Vice Chairman Frankie Myers talk to us about the limited options, none of them seemingly much good.