Agricultural farm land is shown next to the desert in the Imperial valley near El Centro, California May 31, 2015. California is enduring its worst drought on record. REUTERS/Mike Blake TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RTR4Y9V5

— the cauldron of collaboration and competing interests is a collection of players who are just as significant for managing and responding to water scarcity but attract much less attention: the basin’s 29 federally recognized indian tribes.

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